A poll released in France on Wednesday says some 42 percent of Muslims in France have faced discrimination at least once in their life due to their religion. The poll, conducted by Ifop and the Fondation Jean-Jaurès, reveals that those aged between 30 and 40 are more often victims. Some 60 percent of women who …
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A retired French surgeon may have raped or sexually abused as many as 349 children over the 30 years of his career, a prosecutor investigating the case said Friday. This could be France’s biggest-ever paedophilia case. Joel Le Scouarnec, 68, is planned on trial in March for the rape and sexual abuse of four child …
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A female traveler from Cameroon complained that Air France was “subjected to racial discrimination and inhuman treatment”. Cameroonian female passenger of the French National Airline Air France’African passengers’ ill-treatment’ reportedly complained on the grounds. According to national press reports, Gisele Kamanou Goune, who returned to his country for vacation from the United States where he was teaching, …
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The French National Assembly approved the draft law, which regarded anti-Zionism as equivalent to antisemitism. French National Assemblyin the voting, anti-zionismn Anti-Semitismand without any sanction, the bill was accepted with 72 ‘no’ vote and 154 ‘yes’ vote. The bill was based on the International Holocaust Memorial Alliance’s definition of anti-Semitism. In an open letter published in the …
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France’s top Roman Catholic cleric has had his conviction for covering up child sex abuse overturned. Cardinal Philippe Barbarin, archbishop of Lyon, was handed a six-month suspended prison sentence in March 2019 for failing to report a predator priest to police. A Lyon court ruled that from July 2014 to June 2015 Mr Barbarin, 69, covered …
Islamophobic attacks in France rose by 54% in 2019, the president of the National Observatory of Islamophobia said Monday. In a written statement, Abdallah Zekri said there were 100 attacks against Muslims in France in 2018 and this rose to 154 in 2019. The attacks mostly occurred in the Ile-de-France, Rhones-Alpes and Paca regions of …
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France has denied citizenship to Turkish national Murat Büyük, who has been living in the country for over 40 years, on the grounds of sympathy toward the Turkish government headed by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. A viral post on social media Sunday showed a letter, signed by a French official working for the Ministry of …
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“When I was 14 years old, during my Junior Seminary, I already knew (that I was attracted to little boys). People told me ‘you are sick’, but they got rid of me. They sent me to another seminary,” Preynat told the court on the second day of trial. A former priest in Sainte-Foy-les-Lyon, in the suburbs of …
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The victims of a paedophile priest at the heart of the biggest scandal to hit the Catholic church will face their attacker in a French court. Bernard Preynat, 74, who has been defrocked, is believed to have sexually abused scores of boys over a 30-year period, many of them while they attended catechism classes or …
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In France, Jean-Pierre Pont, a member of parliament from the Republican March (LREM) movement, which was founded by President Emmanuel Macron, described the strikes against pension reform as a terrorist act. Pont, a ruling LREM deputy, announced to the media about strikes launched against pension reform that paralyzed life. “It is completely illegal to take …
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