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Anti-Muslim demonstrations have broken out in France
By SELINA SYKES - Sun, Nov 15, 2015
CROWDS of extreme right-wing protesters have disturbed a solidarity march in France as news breaks that at least one of the terrorists responsible for the slaughters in Paris was a Syrian refugee.
A peaceful demonstration taking place in the centre of Lille, northern France, was interrupted by right-wingers appearing to belong to the Front National.
The unrest came as Front National leader Marine Le Pen declared French people are no longer safe and called for France to take back control of its borders.
Many people have taken to the streets across France today to show their solidarity with Paris despite the French government banning demonstrations from taking place for security reasons.
Banners of peaceful protesters read: We are not afraid, Pray for Paris and Je suis Paris in homage to the terrorist attacks on Charlie Hebdo in January.
Mourning Parisians have laid flowers and candles at the six locations where the gruesome attacks took place.
http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/619463/Paris-attacks-Anti-Muslim-protests-Islam-France-terrorism
Initech
(100,107 posts)"France... take control of your borders."
ucrdem
(15,512 posts){Google translation }
Lille: the show of support disrupted by right-wing extremists
Fifteen far-right protesters disrupted the Paris demonstrations in support of victims of attacks Saturday in 15 hours, Republic Square in Lille. They quickly left the scene because of tensions with protesters
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There were about 500 people to honor the victims of the attacks in Paris Place de la République in Lille. While the event, organized by the League of Human Rights (LDH), took place in a calm, a dozen people wearing tricolor flags, identified by LDH as belonging to the National Front, chanted: "expel the Islamists "and burst firecrackers.
Several protesters were then pushed them back, shouting."Out with the fascists ", before a fortnight CRS is interposed by forming a security cordon. The far-right militants then left the gathering by singing and engaged in an adjoining shopping street. The mayor of Lille had earlier this afternoon reminded state instructions calling for "See all gatherings immediately" following the attacks in Paris.
Many support gatherings are organized in the region. Arras A mid-day, 500 people gathered at the foot of the belfry, police said. Among them, the mayor Frédéric Leturque, the prefect of Pas-de-Calais Fabienne Buccio, elected officials and parliamentarians as well as representatives of religions, including Muslim. Other clashes with members of the Bloc identity erupted on the sidelines of events Metz and Paris.
http://france3-regions.francetvinfo.fr/nord-pas-de-calais/lille-la-manifestation-de-soutien-perturbee-par-des-militants-d-extreme-droite-852975.html
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p.s. it looks like this was an incident in Lille but hasn't shown up in any other stories. There's a short video of a confrontation between this group and the Lille mourners at the first link.
shenmue
(38,506 posts)flamingdem
(39,332 posts)The jihadis have decided to go for it and Isis has enough idiotic young people who will blow themselves up and kill mercilessly since that is what they've been taught.
Next year at this time I sense they'll be reduced in number, it just can't continue..
world wide wally
(21,757 posts)pampango
(24,692 posts)Conservatives seem to view borders as a kind of magic that will protect them from the rest of the world. Newsflash to conservatives: Walling off problems does not solve them. We are all part of the world. And the world is a part of us.
Help solve the problem. Don't create them or make them worse. Use the money that you were going to spend on that wall to feed someone somewhere.
Unless these terrorists strolled in from Germany, Spain or Switzerland, a stronger border would not have prevented it. Heck the US has strong borders (no open borders here) and terrorists had a bit of success here too.
That says it all.