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  • Karachigate : Did the Indians Kill the French engineers ?
    24 October 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    Date : May 13,2002
    Source : ASHGABAT (PPA) —
    European and Russian observers have voiced similar opinion that, in all likelihood, India may have engineered the recent brutal killing of French engineers in Karachi who were overseeing construction of Khalid class (Agosta B90) submarines, reports PPA correspondents Tariq Saeedi in Ashgabat and Sergi Pyatakov in Moscow.
    "Only India stands to benefit from this massacre [of French engineers]," said a western European diplomat based in (…)

  • A Good-News Photo Op Embarrasses 2 French Ministers
    23 August 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    By STEVEN ERLANGER
    The French education minister, Luc Chatel, center, visiting the Intermarché supermarket in Villeneuve-le-Roi on Monday. Olivier Laban-Mattei/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
    PARIS — It was apparently just a little summertime spinning with the aid of a grocery chain, but Luc Chatel, the education minister and government spokesman, found himself in some hot water over a supposedly staged visit to a quiet supermarket on Monday.
    Journalists accompanying Mr. Chatel and (…)

  • Marseille Sways to a Maghreb Rhythm
    12 August 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    By SETH SHERWOOD
    AS a warm Saturday night hung over the Mediterranean, the Algerian-French band Yazmen shuffled under the spotlights with its instruments — hand drum, flute, electric bass and a boxy, long-necked stringed instrument called a guembri — while a crowd filed into the hot confines of the windowless Tankono club.
    Couples arrived with children while bespectacled record-store geeks and a bald guy in a dashiki made toasts with Kronenbourg beers. Close to the stage, a dozen or so (…)

  • French Call for the total prohibition of the use of nonlethal weapons by law enforcement
    24 July 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    To the Attention of : THE PRESIDENT OF THE FRENCH REPUBLIC
    I would like to thank all those who have come forward in solidarity, who have passed on information and who have allowed us to speak of these acts of unacceptable violence. Two messages have reinforced my conviction that nonlethal weapons should be outlawed.
    The first message comes from the father of a high school student in Nantes who lost his right eye in similar circumstances. He summed up the report that was made by the CNDS (…)

  • Carla Bruni performs at Nelson Mandela birthday concert
    21 July 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Carla Bruni may be the First Lady of France, but she had no chance of becoming the “first diva” at an exuberant Nelson Mandela 91st birthday concert in New York. Bruni’s first public performance since marrying Nicolas Sarkozy, who was in the audience, put her on stage at Radio City Music Hall along with Gloria Gaynor, Aretha Franklin, Queen Latifah, Alicia Keys, L’il Kim and Cyndi Lauper, plus the male acts will.i.am, Wyclef Jean, Josh Groban, Jesse McCartney and Stevie Wonder.
    Gaynor (…)

  • At Montreuil, the police force aims the demonstrators to the head
    16 July 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    The letter from Stephane Gatti to the Press media Quote : http://bellaciao.org/en/spip.php?article19012
    At Montreuil, the police force aims the demonstrators to the head
    The morning of Wednesday July 8, the police force had emptied a private clinic occupied in the downtown area. The private clinic, in reference to the experiments from Italy, had taken the form of a French" centro sociale”: residences, film projections, newspaper, defense of illegal immigrants, meals… All those that think (…)

  • Bastille Day - from French heroism (1789) to Sarkozy France-complicit, US-imposed Afghan Genocide (2009)
    16 July 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Dr Gideon Polya
    On 14th July 2009 the French celebrated Bastille Day 220 years after the storming of the Bastille on 14th July 1789 by the heroic French people in the French Revolution.
    However what is forgotten is that while the French gained their freedom from oppressive aristocratic rule in the French Revolution, the economic Establishment of France continued its policies of denying non-Europeans their freedom throughout the world.
    “Liberté, égalité, fraternité” did not apply to (…)

  • Cars Burned During Violent Clashes In France (video)
    15 July 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    – Photos and video from Bellaciao
    Manif Montreuil contre les violences policières 13/07/09 HD
    French protesters burned 317 cars and wounded 13 police officers during street violence on the eve of the Bastille Day national holiday, officials have said.
    As French troops made last-minute preparations for the July 14 parade on the Champs Elysees in Paris, the suburbs of major cities were contemplating another clean-up operation.
    By 4am GMT, police headquarters in Paris had recorded 317 (…)

  • Zionist Fanatics Practice Serial Vandalism in Paris
    7 July 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By DIANA JOHNSTONE
    Paris - Thousands of books drenched in cooking oil – that is the latest exploit of the Zionist fanatics who regularly attack property and people in Paris and get away with it.
    In the early afternoon of Friday, July 3, five men, mostly masked, stormed into the “Resistances” bookstore located in a quiet residential neighborhood of the 17th arrondissement in northwest Paris. To the startled women working in the shop, as well as two customers, they announcing that they (…)

  • call out for a no Border camp in Calais 23-29 june 2009
    26 April 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    The Calais No Border camp is a joint venture between French and Belgian activists and migrant support groups and the UK No Borders Network. It aims to highlight the realities of the situation in Calais and Northern France; to build links with the migrant communities; to help build links between migrants support groups; and lastly, but not least, to challenge the authorities on the ground, to protest against increased repression of migrants and local activists alike. This camp calls for the (…)