A Muslim woman from Australia has told how she was forced to leave a beach in France for wearing a burkini. Zeynab Alshelh, a 23-year-old medical student, told Australian media she had travelled to Europe to show solidarity with local Muslim women. Footage broadcast on Channel 7 showed local people saying they would call the …
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Thousands of angry Calais residents, lorry drivers and farmers blockaded the Channel Tunnel and ferry port on Monday to demand the demolition of the sprawling “Jungle” migrants’ camp, blamed for rising insecurity. French lorry drivers have threatened to blockade the port of Calais, causing severe travel disruption in France and the UK, unless a date …
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France’s prime minister Manuel Valls has reacted strongly to an article published by the New York Times on September 2nd, in which French Muslim women complained of discrimination. The article “paints an intolerable picture, because it is false, of France, the country of the Enlightenment and liberties,” Mr Valls retorted in an opinion piece published …
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The journalist named Gaspard Glanz, a founder of Taranis News , was taken into custody while he was taking photo of Police Violence in Calais Jungle. He said he was shocked, and he considers this incident against freedom of press. He was kept under surveillance for 30 hours. He was released on 27th October. However …
The number of migrants sleeping rough on the streets of Paris has risen by at least a third since the start of the week when the “Jungle” shanty town in Calais was evacuated, officials said. Along the bustling boulevards and a canal in a northeastern corner of Paris, hundreds of tents have been pitched by …
At least 90 migrants who refused to leave the so-called “Jungle” camp in Calais, northern France, have been detained before deportation, a French NGO said on Friday. The CIMADE organization said the 90 migrants were taken to detention centers ahead of being sent back to their countries in 45 days’ time. Among the migrants were …
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Children have been sent back to a demolished and burning campsite in Calais despite French authorities declaring the “jungle” had been emptied. Aid organisations have told The New Arab that dozens of children who were turned away when the registration office closed at 12.15pm on Wednesday were left with no choice but to go back …
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A center for homeless people due to open in one of the richest districts of Paris in late October has been hit by an apparent arson attack, authorities said. The center faced strong objections from locals who feared that it would host asylum seekers. The incident took place near the Bois de Boulogne forest in …
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French police have been stripping refugees and migrants of their shoes and forcing them to walk in bare feet to deter them from venturing outside the Calais Jungle, The Independent has learned. Refugees failing to comply with officers’ demands have then felt they were being threatened by police officers with force, it has been alleged. …
President François Hollande, France’s most unpopular president in the last six decades, admitted in his tell-all book that Muslim women want to choose freedom from wearing a veil. He also revealed that he no longer supports immigration. Referring to Muslim women, “the veiled women of today will be the Marianne of tomorrow,” said the French …
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