[Marxism] FW: [snow-news] Violence continues in France for 17th night, with clashes in center of Lyons (Le Monde, Libération)

["David McDonald" <dbmcdonald@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Translations from the French press by Mark Jensen of United for Peace of
Pierce County. The full text of the translations may be found at the URL
below. His introductory comments are in square brackets below.

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Subject: [snow-news] Violence continues in France for 17th night, with
clashes in center of Lyons (Le Monde, Libération)


TRANSLATIONS: Violence continues in France for 17th night, with clashes in
the
center of Lyons

[There was widespread violence in French urban areas for the 17th straight
night on Nov. 12-13; feared raids on Paris did not materialize, but for the
first time there was violence in the center of a major French city, Lyons
(the
largest city in eastern France with about 1.4 million inhabitants in its
metropolitan region), *Le Monde* reported Sunday morning.[1]  --  On
Saturday
evening *Libération* (Paris) reported in greater detail on violent clashes
that took place late Saturday afternoon in central Lyons, before a curfew
took
effect; police there used tear-gas, about a dozen arrests took place, and
physical damage was said to be considerable.[2]  --  A curfew for
unaccompanied minors has been imposed there for the rest of the weekend.  --
On Saturday morning, *Libération* took a critical look at the first
invocation
of the 1955 law on the state of emergency, invoked by the French government
on
Nov. 8.[3]  --  "The notion of a 'meeting of a nature to provoke or support
disorder' is in fact 'so vague' that it allows anything," wrote Patricia
Tourancheau.  "For Professor of Public Law Ferdinand Mélin-Soucramanien, the
order 'violates at a minimum the freedom of assembly and demonstration.
This
was to be expected, as the point of the 1955 decree was, precisely, to
suspend
fundamental rights.  A disproportionate means is being used to reestablish
Republican order."  Michel Tubiana, former president of the Ligue des droits
de l'homme ['Human Rights League'], warns against 'slippery-slope risks':
'The Paris police prefecture is giving security forces the right to forbid
whatever they want, in any way they want. . . . It is to be feared that the
police see more to disturb order in a group of three or four
ever-so-slightly
dark-colored young people than in an assembly of whites.  This order
authorizes all arbitrary acts.'"  --Mark]

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/3631/


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