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Police break up of protest in Paris didn't go well
Baltimore News.Net Saturday 31st July, 2010
A video has surfaced showing scenes of alleged police brutality against migrant woman and children in Paris.
In the video, a woman is dragged along the pavement with a baby on her back while in other scenes police are seen forcibly removing women amid the cries of their children.
The video, which records an incident that, reportedly, lasted around thirty minutes, was filmed last Wednesday when police were sent into the suburb of La Courneuve in Paris to evict mostly West African migrants from the area.
The group has been peacefully living on the street outside the council homes from which they were evicted to clear the way for a development project.
It was this eviction that they’d been opposing.
Michael Hajdenberg, a journalist with the French media organization Mediapart told CNN that the group comprised of around 60 woman and young children and that they’d been offered temporary accommodation in hotels, but resisted as they wanted a more permanent solution.
The woman and children were predominantly from the Ivory Coast, a principal former colony of France and a major source of resources and forced-labor for the French empire in the 19th and 20th centuries.
In one scene, a women with a baby tied to her back (a popular form of carrying children in some African cultures) is dragged along the pavement by police, causing her baby to fall out of its blanket.
The baby is quickly picked up by a policeman after hitting the pavement.
The scenes were filmed by French rights group, DAL, despite efforts by the police to impose a media blackout over the area in which the protest breakup was taking place.
According to a statement issued by French police, the eviction of illegal squatters is never “a simple procedure” adding that “the situation of the evicted squatters is currently being examined to see if they can be re-housed depending on different criteria”. Email this story to a friend
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Kamal Toews 07-31-10, 08:33 AM |
French police violence caught on camera
Why are there so many immigrants in Europe who just cannot seem to get along peac efully & follow customs that have been in place for centuries. Have these ignorant people who bleed the welfare system dry no respect for the hands that feed them? ANd why are they having babies at such a prolific rate if they are so poor? They should be deported, they obviously haven’t learned about what it means to be civilized. Seems like they need a few more centuries in the jungle to evolve. Obviously they do not care to learn how to fit in if they are squatting on the streets. Getting tired of all the conflict with immigrants from third world countries (really - welfare parasite countries) who seem to think that it is our obligation to look after them while they take no responsibility for their own plight.
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Sheet Head 07-31-10, 08:34 AM |
Boo Hoo!
Poor women who seem to always be pregnant or have a baby strapped to them somewhere instead of keeping their legs closed & providing for the picaninnies they already have . . why don’t they just go back, & stop littering civilized society with their scummy, low class ways.
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Colts Fan 07-31-10, 12:26 PM |
Wow...
This is sad. It’s sad how we judge the situations of others that we know nothing about. Kamal Toews and Sheet Head are two of the MOST IGNORANT individuals I’ve (thankfully) never had the pleasure of meeting.
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GIA 07-31-10, 02:23 PM |
FORCED eviction
One World, One People. Land and Sea, Sky Above. Love One Another. No Passports. No Countries. No Flags. No Hatred. No racism. Just Peace and Prosperity and Love. End to Poverty. End to being Rich. The sooner we all inter-marry, inter-breed and all look the same and sound the same - THE BETTER - and No Religion Too!!!.
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Schalla 07-31-10, 04:17 PM |
Ridicoulus
Judging by how much the French have benefited from african slave labour and indeed west africans in general it disgusts me to see them being treated this way . And to the uneducated imbecile who wrote the first post and called 3d world countries welfare parasites,get an education!maybe if you knew better you’d be a bit more courteous to the descendents of those slaves who helped build 1st world nations!!
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JUST FAX 07-31-10, 05:35 PM |
those that now!!!!!!!!!!
Im glad to see what you racist mofos think. 1 question what if they were white woman and children? then what would you say.Black people are using up welfare systems? Learn facts their are more whites on public assistance than any minority group. After all that was stolen from my people all over world you pricks want to take our pride. NEVER NEVER NEVER
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micky 08-01-10, 04:39 AM |
shame on the french
Shame on the french police & those idoits
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chichi 08-01-10, 06:25 PM |
THIS IS A MINUS TO FRENCH AS A COUNTRY
Oh! dear Lord, In this present era people can be treated this way? No respect for humanity? And some morons are making stupid comments because they think all is well with them. I belt you Idiots that made the first and second comment, If you had been in these people shoes, you would have been and acted more stupid and primitive than you think those people are, and am sure you you can’t even have the to travel out of your so called country because you don’t even have confident yourself.
And for the French Police is a shame on them and a shame to their country for making the whole world know that they are big time racist.
IS REALLY A SHAME TO YOU.
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Wow 08-01-10, 07:23 PM |
Rights of Human beings
It’s very sad to see the first posts, I take it your not African decents, understanding your History is the first
thing you need to go and learn. Look into these 1st world Countries past, then you will understand why there is so much immigration from the Jungle as you put it. If it were not for immigration the French would still be pissing in pots in their bedrooms, or better still throwing it out of windows. What has happened in France is a shame on Humanity! Should never happen. We all bleed.
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Jo313 08-02-10, 09:37 PM |
All human?
Couldn’t they have given those families a more permanent home before evicting them from their current houses in the first place? I wouldn’t like to be kicked out with nowhere to go. One thing I don’t mind doing is paying a little extra tax to support decent homes and education for people less fortunate than me, this world is hard enough without people hurting eachother and I hope that someone would show me more compassion than the French government has shown these women if a day comes when my luck runs out.
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rozie 08-04-10, 09:54 PM |
do you think your better than them? you are not!!
kamal toews and sheet head, if they were not black and from africa you would’nt have such racist comments. as far as them having so many children, maybe they unlike you don’t want to kill their children. just because they made a mistake and got pregnant, you sound like your the type to get pregnant can’t afford the child have abortion after abortion then, when everything is so called perfect in your world, like maybe you finally have a husband now you can have a baby. but for now you just continue to kill your babies. i believe this is why so many woman have a problem having children, because they use abortion as a form of birth control. if these were white even, hispanic women as we saw in arizona last week protesting immigration, they would have ask them do you want your friend to take your PURSE?, before they politely walked them off to be arrested. those cops are just like you two RACIST!!! you RACIST will treat a purse or a animal more human than you would EVER treat a black person period. you all hate our black PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA, get over it. please don’t tell me that racism stopped when he took office because it has only gotten worse.
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rozie 08-04-10, 10:10 PM |
you can't handle the truth
sheet head, i missed this racist insult you had, who the hell do you think your calling picaninnies? these are children, they are just as good as any white child and have rights just like them. all races have people who are not go for society. who are you to tell people to close their legs? who died and put you in charge? you must think your holier than thou. you call yourself sheet head don’t you mean KKK i wear a sheet on my head. you are too stupid to find words to describe you. you are not GOD. and when you die i hope you have a SLOW FALL TO HELL!!! good luck meeting your maker.
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