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Iran censures France for violent handling of unrest
TEHRAN, Jan. 5 (MNA) – Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast has criticized the French government for using violence against protestors.
The way the French police treat protestors is considered a violation of civil rights, Mehmanparast told reporters on Monday.
He condemned the arrest of nearly 400 people across France on New Year’s Eve, saying the French officials must try to identify the cause of the unrest.
Setting fires to 1137 vehicles in different cities shows that people are dissatisfied with social injustice and inequity in France, he noted.
The fact that 353 homeless people died in 2009 in France shows human suffering in a country whose authorities claim to practice equality and democracy, he explained.
Mehmanparast attributed the reason behind the conflict to the wrong policies of the French government.
He called for a change in the way the French police treat citizens, calling on the UN Human Rights Council and other international bodies to seriously deal with such acts.
French Interior Minister Brice Hortefeux has said in a statement that 405 arrests were made across the country, a figure that has doubled compared to last year.
The French Interior Ministry had reportedly mobilized around 45,000 police officers during the night to confront discontent youth from immigrant-heavy suburbs.
Car burnings occasionally take place in France, but the number traditionally soars on New Year’s Eve.
This year, more than 70 cars had been reportedly set aflame only in the eastern city of Strasbourg. Meanwhile, police in the Hauts-de-Seine district near Paris reported 32 cases of arson.
Riots and car-burnings that echo the events of 1789 are of regular occurrence during the past few years.
Unhappy youths, living primarily in France’s run-down ghettos, use special days in the country to vent their anger at the discriminatory policies against ethnic minorities and the high unemployment rate.
Even the enactment of a law that sets possible prison sentences of up to three years and maximum fines of $63,000 for people convicted of arson while demonstrating has failed to deter the protests.
Such violent protests flared-up in France for the first time in October and November 2005, when angry youths burned some 9,000 vehicles, following the deaths of two teenagers, who were chased by the police in a Paris suburb.
The way the French police treat protestors is considered a violation of civil rights, Mehmanparast told reporters on Monday.
He condemned the arrest of nearly 400 people across France on New Year’s Eve, saying the French officials must try to identify the cause of the unrest.
Setting fires to 1137 vehicles in different cities shows that people are dissatisfied with social injustice and inequity in France, he noted.
The fact that 353 homeless people died in 2009 in France shows human suffering in a country whose authorities claim to practice equality and democracy, he explained.
Mehmanparast attributed the reason behind the conflict to the wrong policies of the French government.
He called for a change in the way the French police treat citizens, calling on the UN Human Rights Council and other international bodies to seriously deal with such acts.
French Interior Minister Brice Hortefeux has said in a statement that 405 arrests were made across the country, a figure that has doubled compared to last year.
The French Interior Ministry had reportedly mobilized around 45,000 police officers during the night to confront discontent youth from immigrant-heavy suburbs.
Car burnings occasionally take place in France, but the number traditionally soars on New Year’s Eve.
This year, more than 70 cars had been reportedly set aflame only in the eastern city of Strasbourg. Meanwhile, police in the Hauts-de-Seine district near Paris reported 32 cases of arson.
Riots and car-burnings that echo the events of 1789 are of regular occurrence during the past few years.
Unhappy youths, living primarily in France’s run-down ghettos, use special days in the country to vent their anger at the discriminatory policies against ethnic minorities and the high unemployment rate.
Even the enactment of a law that sets possible prison sentences of up to three years and maximum fines of $63,000 for people convicted of arson while demonstrating has failed to deter the protests.
Such violent protests flared-up in France for the first time in October and November 2005, when angry youths burned some 9,000 vehicles, following the deaths of two teenagers, who were chased by the police in a Paris suburb.
