Seven Italian charities have accused French border police of falsifying the birth dates of migrant children travelling alone in an attempt to pass them off as adults and send them back to Italy. In an appeal to the European commission and Italy’s interior ministry, the charities highlighted evidence of two cases in which birth dates appeared …
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Supporters of the PYD/PKK terrorist organization in April 6, attacked the Council of Europe’s Agora building in Strasbourg, France. Around 30 people got past a security checkpoint where nearly 600 people were working, according to an Anadolu Agency correspondent reporting from the scene. The PYD/PKK sympathizers hung a banner that called for the release of …
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UN human rights experts urged the French government to do more to provide safe drinking water, sanitation services and emergency shelter for migrants and asylum-seekers in Calais and other areas along the coast of France. The migrants and asylum seekers are also in Grande-Synthe, Tatinghem, and Dieppe along the northern French coast. “Migrants and asylum-seekers along …
The National Assembly in France has passed new immigration laws that toughen up asylum rules by speeding up the application procedure and making it easier to deport people. The controversial law has brought widespread criticism from human right defenders and sown rare divisions within French president Emmanuel Macron’s own Republic on the Move (LRM) centrist …
Police moved in on the biggest migrant camp in Paris on May 30 where 1,700 people lived in makeshift tents alongside a canal. The migrants will be housed temporarily at more than 20 sites across the Paris region while the authorities check their identities, Interior Minister Gerard Collomb said. CRS riot police were deployed at dawn, …
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France’s interior minister has ordered Paris forcibly evacuate migrant camps that have sprung up along its canals. The move is emblematic of France’s tough new approach to migrants. The French Interior Ministry pledged to evict about 2,300 migrants camped next to popular Parisian canals. The contentious decision has highlighted the problem of how European nations are …
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L’Avenue, a Paris restaurant popular with celebrities, has a system in place to keep out people with Arabic-sounding names and women in headscarves, an investigation by BuzzFeed News in France shows. BuzzFeed News spoke with four servers who worked at L’Avenue for several years, one until very recently. The four former employees claim that their …
As Europe celebrated the beginning of the end of World War II with Germany surrendering on 8 May 1945, thousands of Algerian men, women and children were mobilised by the French in Algeria to mark the victory of the Allied forces over the Nazis. Many organisations joined the protest where they held up placards including …
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A manifesto published in the French daily Le Parisien on April 21, signed by some 300 prominent intellectuals and politicians, including former President Nicolas Sarkozy and former Prime Minister Manuel Valls, made a shocking demand. Arguing that the Quran incites violence, it insisted that “the verses of the Quran calling for murder and punishment of Jews, Christians, and nonbelievers …
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Lafarge is a French industrial company specializing in three major products: cement, construction aggregates, and concrete. Between 2013 and 2014, the company’s Jalabiya plant operated on Daesh*-controlled territories in northern Syria. The firm has been accused of financing terrorist organization and crimes of against humanity in Syria. The judges have also charged the holding company with violating an embargo and …
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