(note: Drancy is a town in Paris suburb. During the Second World War, Jews were deported from the rail station of this town to death camps)
The one who does not know where he comes from, does not know where he goes
However, knowing where you are coming from, remembering the history, is it enough for improving the present and future?
Four days on 22 April 2009, some 200 Rroms from Romania have been expelled manu militari from the place they were staying, in the immediate vicinity of (…)
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DRANCY 1944 AND DRANCY 2009
25 April 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
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Democracy ? Police controls a journalist in Strasbourg
6 April 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
While running a police check was going well, the situation where a skid POLICE COMMISSIONER just attacked us.
COMMISSIONER says starts with taking the camera from our 1st confrere, then rushed on the second which had its accreditation MEDIA NATO press card will be requested and confiscated on the spot.
At this time we still do not know or is this card or press and we can recover.
One thing is sure, a complaint will be filed in the coming days. -
Police and protesters clash in Strasbourg, France at NATO summit (videos)
4 April 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
2 commentsSTRASBOURG, France — Police are clashing with demonstrators in Strasbourg where the NATO summit is underway.
Several hundred protesters in eastern Strasbourg are hurling Molotov cocktails, rocks and bottles as they try to push their way into the city’s centre.
Some 100 riot police bearing shields and wearing body armour are responding with tear gas in a bid to break up the melee with the demonstrators, many of whom are clad in black and wearing masks.
Across the river in the German (…) -
Anti-NATO protests continue in France
4 April 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
Anti-NATO protests continue in France An anti-Nato protester hurls a stone in Strasbourg.
Sat, 04 Apr 2009 09:11:35 GMT
NATO heads of state are meeting on the outskirts of French city of Strasbourg to mark the organizations’ 60th anniversary amid protests.
Anti-NATO demonstrations continue in Strasbourg and the neighboring German cities of Baden-Baden and Kehl despite the deployment of thousands of German and French troops and police forces.
Police clashed with protestors, who have (…) -
Daniele Ganser: «President Sarkozy has accepted the dominance of the United States»
3 April 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
Daniele Ganser: «President Sarkozy has accepted the dominance of the United States»
by Sandro Cruz*
In view of Albania’s and Croatia’s recent admission to NATO and on the occasion of the Alliance’s 60th anniversary celebrations in France and Germany on April 3 and 4, Voltaire Net has asked Professor Daniele Ganser to give his assessment of this organisation. According to this world-renowned NATO specialist, the Alliance stopped playing a defensive role after the demise of the USSR. Today (…) -
France recognises her responsibility to the military and civilian victims of her nuclear tests
1 April 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
The veterans of France’s nuclear testing, after years of futile approaches to military authorities and legal tribunals, all systematically dismissed or (if successful) referred to appeal by the ministry, have now won an apparently decisive victory.
For the first time, a Minister of Defense has now recognised a link, in principle, between some deaths and some illnesses (chiefly cancers) suffered by career servicemen, conscripts and civilians who took part in the France’s nuclear testing (…) -
Record numbers join anti-Sarkozy protests
20 March 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
Record numbers took to the streets of France yesterday in the biggest demonstrations since Nicolas Sarkozy’s election, to protest about his handling of the economic crisis.
Unions estimated that more than three million people took part in demonstrations across the country, in the second general strike over the economic crisis in two months. Police put figures at about 1.2 million. With one in three people supporting the protest, it had the highest public backing for a strike in a decade. (…) -
Nato Counter summit in Strasburg
12 March 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
April 3rd and 4th — Strasburg. NATO turns 60. Let’s celebrate. An opportunity to seize, a call to be heard. Counter-summit in Strasburg: not an appointment with the Power, but a meeting with the situation.
Civilization knew it was bound to die someday – but only in theory. After several shocks and attacks, it now feels it through all its fibers, all its vital flows. A feeling of death in the democratic air. It is no longer denied, it has become a threat, a pretext for mobilization. Powers (…) -
Martinique strike turns violent
7 March 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
Martinique strike turns violent, mayor urges calm
A general strike in the French Caribbean island of Martinique turned violent on Friday as protesters clashed with business owners who organized their own peaceful protest.
Hundreds of police launched tear gas as protesters threw rocks and bottles and set cars and garbage bins on fire.
Martinique’s prefect, Ange Mancini, said four police officers were slightly injured. He asked residents to remain indoors.
Employers were confronted as (…) -
SUPPORTING freedom of expression
14 February 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
1 commentWhat the hell did he do ??
Well, the man is being tried for selling the communist daily "L’Humanité-dimanche" in the street : his trial is to take place on February 18th.
Lounis merely sold the French daily at the Dejean Market, in the 18th ’arrondissement’ in Paris... where he had been selling it for 20 years.
And yet, in 2007 -about 8 weeks before the French presidential election- he was questioned by the police for "selling goods in a public place without any authorization".
A (…)