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French police clash with protesters opposed to farm reservoir

French police clash with protesters opposed to farm reservoir

SEVERAL people were injured following clashes between French police and protesters opposed to a large water reservoir for farm irrigation, despite a ban on gatherings in the area. Police fired tear gas to repel some protesters who threw fireworks and other projectiles as they crossed fields to approach the construction area in the western rural district of Sainte-Soline. At least three police vehicles were set alight, television footage showed. Two protesters were seriously hurt, including one who is in critical condition after suffering a head injury, as well as 16 police officers, the local prefecture said. One officer was evacuated…
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‘We have no choice’: migrants undeterred by UK threat to send boats back to France

‘We have no choice’: migrants undeterred by UK threat to send boats back to France

RICHARD LOUGH and FORREST CRELLIN MUSTAFA Suleiman, 21, is resolute in his determination to reach Britain and won't be deterred from London's threats to intercept boats illegally carrying migrants in the Channel and send them back to France. Suleiman, who fled Sudan's Darfur region in 2019, has tried to make the perilous journey through some of the world's busiest shipping lanes twice in the past year. Both times, he was thwarted by French police before making it off the beach. "We will try and try until the last day of our life," Suleiman told Reuters in a camp on wasteland…
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Pretty Yende: SA seeks answers from France

Pretty Yende: SA seeks answers from France

AFRICAN MIRROR REPORTER THE ill-treatment of world acclaimed South African soprano Pretty Yende at the hands of the French Police has become a diplomatic incident. The South African government has summoned France's Ambassador to SA to convey its displeasure at the treatment of Yende at the Charles de Gaulle International Airport on Monday. According to SA's Department of International Relations and Co-operation (DIRCO), the SA Embassy in Paris has also written to the French authorities, seeking an explanation and requesting a thorough investigation into the matter. Yende was detained at the Charles De Gaulle International Airport based on an allegation…
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French police face worst nightmare: an attacker they never saw coming

French police face worst nightmare: an attacker they never saw coming

TANGI SALAUN THE teenager identified by prosecutors as Abdoulakh A. lived with his family and had never appeared on the radar of French intelligence agencies. But he propelled himself into their sights in a horrific manner on Friday evening when he beheaded a school teacher in broad daylight. The 18-year-old had a record of juvenile delinquency but was too young for police to have built up a file on him. He lived in a Chechen community that is not well understood by intelligence services. He used a knife to decapitate the middle school history teacher, Samuel Paty, who had shown…
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French police shoot dead man who slit teacher’s throat

French police shoot dead man who slit teacher’s throat

TANGI SALAUN and GEERT DE CLERCQ FRENCH police shot dead a man who minutes earlier had killed a middle school teacher by slitting his throat in the street in a suburb of Paris. The teacher had shown pupils in his class cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad, which are considered by Muslims to be blasphemous, according to a police source. France's anti-terror prosecutor said it was investigating the attack, which took place in Conflans Sainte-Honorine, a suburb north-west of Paris. The suspected attacker was spotted by a police patrol while carrying a knife a short distance from the scene of the…
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