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GENEVA (15 October 2021) – On the first anniversary of the murder of French school teacher Samuel Paty, UN experts paid tribute to his commitment to teaching human rights values and said the best way to honour him is to defy fundamentalism and defend human rights.
Mr. Paty was beheaded by an (…)
Well over a hundred prominent Indians from diverse backgrounds have today issued a statement condemning the Paris beheadings and deploring the outrageous statements by Muslim religious and political leaders. Among other things the statement read: “No God, gods, goddesses, prophets or saints may (…)
The attack on a church in the French Riviera city of Nice on Thursday, which left three people dead from knife wounds, was the third in the space of a month in a long series of terrorist attacks in France perpetrated by lone knifemen who have often escaped the attention of intelligence services. (…)
Less than two weeks after the beheading of a teacher in France, another horrific attack has left three dead in a church in Nice by a man reportedly of Tunisian descent. In response, President Emmanuel Macron claimed that France “is under attack” and, according to The Guardian, ordered the (…)
Horror, shock, dread : this is what we feel faced with the assassination of Samuel Paty, who taught of history and geography at the Collège du Bois d’Aulne in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, by a fanatical murderer. This death is atrocious. It is atrocious in absolute terms, the death of a man killed (…)
One of the attackers who killed Father Jacques Hamel during mass has been named as 19-year-old Adel Kermiche.
France was plunged into profound horror and shock for the second time in 12 days when two men slit the throat of a priest as he was celebrating mass in a Normandy church on Tuesday (…)
The existence of a powerful, xenophobic far right, and racist elements on the centre-right, is building tension across France.
Why has France become such a persistent target for jihadist assault?
There is a temptation, both inside and outside the country to suggest that France, and (…)
French-Tunisian man named as Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel, who killed 84 people in Nice, appears to have been a violent petty criminal.
The man responsible for Thursday’s murderous attack in Nice was a violent petty criminal unknown to the French security services, who was born in Tunisia but (…)
An Algerian writer ponders the brutal and senseless absurdity the jihadis seek to impose
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The news hit me at night, in Brooklyn. A choking black fear suddenly gripped me, because I am Algerian and know what war means: the destruction of all that is human, (…)
Gun attacks and suicide bombings across city that killed least 129 people described by French president as ‘act of war’ [Extracts from a Guardian article, with some updates (figures...) added].
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Here is what we know so far about the Paris attacks:
The French president, François (…)
In the aftermath of the massacres of Paris, members and supporters of Attac, in unison with the French society, feel horror and revulsion at the indiscriminate and murderous hatred.
Attac expresses its solidarity with the victims and their relatives. The people murdered Friday night were (…)
Tonight, the golden triangle of Parisian youth culture is covered in blood.
We do not yet know the full extent of the terrorist attacks in Paris that started Friday night, or even how many attacks there were. But we do know that the coordination and the scale of the attacks is unprecedented, (…)
Paris attack: Far-right protesters who stormed silent vigil chased away by attendees shouting ’go away fascists’
After they had gone, the crowd broke its silence, singing the French national anthem La Marseilleise.
Far-right protesters wielding the French flag stormed a silent solidarity (…)
The terrorist attack in Paris and at the Stade de France on Friday November 13th targeted the whole of society; our society, our France, a France made up of diversity, plurality, of people coming together and mixing, argues Mediapart’s editor-in-chief, Edwy Plenel. It is that open society that (…)
Solidarity and Resistance
Union syndicale Solidaires
The Union syndicale Solidaires expresses its deep sorrow and solidarity with all the victims of the attacks that shook Paris and Saint Denis last night with their families, their colleagues, their friends are.
It salutes the courage of (…)
We should start with a worrying observation.
Heads of state understood the importance of the events of January. Representatives of “democracies” and dictatorships alike, they came to Paris and locked arms together to show solidarity “at the highest levels”. A spectacular gesture if ever there (…)
More than two weeks on, the debate on the barbaric killings of Charlie Hebdo journalists and the freedom of expression has become a conversation across time-zones and political, cultural and legal divides. This is probably the first time that such a debate is taking place in a world connected by (…)
Gilbert Achcar is a professor at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London and the author of many books, including Clash of Barbarisms: September 11 and the Making of the New World Disorder, The People Want: A Radical Exploration of the Arab Uprising and Marxism, (…)
The January 2015 terror attack on the Paris satirical weekly and its gross misinterpretation by people of Left liberal sensibilities in India and much of the world.
We recently witnessed a devastating terror assault by fanatics who gunned down close to 200 children in a school in Peshawar. (…)
This is a statement from Socialist Resistance on the murders in France.
Four people were murdered in a Paris supermarket by Amedy Coulibaly because they were Jewish. Said and Cherif Kouachi slaughtered twelve more because they were offended by cartoons hostile to Islam and Muslims published (…)
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