Category: France

  • Turkey Condemns Terrorist Organization’s Acts İn European Countries

    Turkey Condemns Terrorist Organization’s Acts İn European Countries

    DisisleriTurkey condemned on Friday terrorist organization PKK’s acts in European countries.
    Turkish Foreign Ministry spokesperson Selcuk Unal said that Turkey strongly condemned acts of terrorist organization in several European countries that threatened public order and security, particularly the occupation of Turkish Cultural & Promotion Counsellor’s Office in Paris, France by members of the terrorist organization.
    “PKK members staged acts in several parts of Europe on September 28, and these incidents once more confirmed that terrorist organization PKK, as stated in reports prepared by the European Union (EU), has become a threat for Europe,” Unal said.
    Unal said PKK members invaded Turkish Cultural & Promotion Counsellor’s Office in Paris, France, and Turkey thought that European countries should get the necessary lesson caused by their tolerance towards the terrorist organization.
    “It is high time that the acts of PKK, functioning under different names, and their supporters were put an end,” Unal said.
    Unal said Turkey had voiced its expectations to French authorities that Turkish representations and their interests should be protected and people staging such illegal acts should be punished.
    The spokesperson also said that Turkey expressed its expectation that the authorities took required measures to protect Turkish diplomatic missions as soon as possible.

    Turkish Weekly

  • Praying in Paris streets outlawed

    Praying in Paris streets outlawed

    Praying in the streets of Paris is against the law starting Friday, after the interior minister warned that police will use force if Muslims, and those of any other faith, disobey the new rule to keep the French capital’s public spaces secular.

    Claude Guéant promised the new legislation would be followed to the letter Photo: AFP/GETTY

    By Henry Samuel, Paris

    Claude Guéant said that ban could later be extended to the rest of France, in particular to the Mediterranean cities of Nice and Marseilles, where “the problem persists”.

    He promised the new legislation would be followed to the letter as it “hurts the sensitivities of many of our fellow citizens”.

    “My vigilance will be unflinching for the law to be applied. Praying in the street is not dignified for religious practice and violates the principles of secularism, the minister told Le Figaro newspaper.

    “All Muslim leaders are in agreement,” he insisted.

    In December when Marine Le Pen, then leader-in-waiting of the far-Right National Front, sparked outrage by likening the practice to the Nazi occupation of Paris in the Second World War “without the tanks or soldiers”. She said it was a “political act of fundamentalists”.

    More than half of right-wing sympathisers in France agreed with Marine Le Pen, at least one poll suggested.

    Nicolas Sarkozy’s party denounced the comments, but the President called for a debate on Islam and secularism and went on to say that multiculturalism had failed in France.

    Following the debate, Mr Guéant promised a countrywide ban “within months”, saying the “street is for driving in, not praying”.

    In April, a ban on wearing the full Islamic veil came into force. Holland today became the third European country to ban the burka, after Belgium, despite the fact fewer than 100 Dutch women are thought to wear the face-covering Islamic dress.

    Yesterday, Mr Guéant said the prayer problem was limited to two roads in the Goutte d’Or district of Paris’s eastern 19th arrondissement, where “more than a thousand” people blocked the street every Friday.

    However, a stroll through several districts in Paris on a Friday suggests that Muslims spill into the streets outside many mosques.

    Under an agreement signed this week, believers will be able to use the premises of a vast nearby fire station while awaiting the construction of a bigger mosque.

    “We could go as far as using force if necessary (to impose the ban), but it’s a scenario I don’t believe will happen, as dialogue (with local religious leaders) has born fruit,” he said.

    Sheikh Mohamed salah Hamza, in charge of one of the Parisian mosques which regularly overflows, said he would obey the new law, but complained: “We are not cattle” and that he was “not entirely satisfied” with the new location. He said he feared many believers would continue to prefer going to the smaller mosque.

    Public funding of places of religious worship is banned under a 1905 law separating church and state. Mr Guéant said that there were 2,000 mosques in France with half being built in the past ten years.

    France has Europe’s largest Muslim population, with an estimated five million in total.

    www.telegraph.co.uk, 15 Sep 2011

  • Libya rebels ‘promised France 35% oil’

    Libya rebels ‘promised France 35% oil’

    FRANCE LIBYA Zionisms Ugly FaceParis – Libya’s rebels in April promised France 35 per cent of the country’s crude oil in exchange for supporting the National Transitional Council in its fight against Muammar Gaddafi, a French newspaper reported on Thursday.

    Liberation newspaper published a copy of a letter in Arabic from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Libya, the forerunner to the rebels’ council, addressed to Qatar, in which the rebels apparently refer to a deal to give 35% of Libya’s crude to France in return for supporting the rebellion.

    The letter, which was dated April 03, two weeks after the start of the military intervention in support of the rebels that France had championed, said the deal was struck with France “during the London summit”.

    An international conference on the conflict in Libya was held in London on March 29.

    France’s foreign ministry told Liberation it had no knowledge of the existence of the letter.

    An NTC representative was not immediately available to confirm the existence of such a letter.

    French oil giant Total is one of several players in the Libyan oil market. The biggest oil producer in Libya is Italy’s Eni.

    Eni and Total have been tipped to emerge as the biggest winners in the post-Gaddafi era, given the strong support shown by their countries for the rebels.

    – SAPA

    www.news24.com, 01.09.2011

  • Sarkozy took illegal cash from L’Oréal heiress, claims judge

    Sarkozy took illegal cash from L’Oréal heiress, claims judge

    New book rekindles speculation about corruption in run-up to 2007 election

    By John Lichfield in Paris

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    The 'Bettencourt affair' began with a family quarrel between the L'Oréal heiress Liliane Bettencourt , pictured, and her only daughter, Françoise Meyers-Bettencourt

    A judge will today accuse President Nicolas Sarkozy of accepting illegal cash contributions to his 2007 election campaign from France’s wealthiest woman.

    The accusation, levelled in a new book, threatens to launch an explosive new season of last summer’s long-running politico-financial soap opera known as “The Bettencourt Affair”.

    Judge Isabelle Prévost-Desprez tells the authors of the investigative book that pressure from the Elysée Palace forced her to be removed from her inquiries into political aspects of the affair. Earlier, she said she had received evidence from an eyewitness that Mr Sarkozy accepted a cash payment in 2007 from the L’Oréal heiress, Liliane Bettencourt, now 88.

    Under French law, individual campaign donations are limited to €7,500 (£6,626), of which only €150 may be given in cash. Another witness in the Bettencourt affair claimed last summer that cash payments had been made to Mr Sarkozy but later withdrew her accusation.

    The judge’s new claim was dismissed yesterday by leading Sarkozy allies as politically motivated. The Elysée Palace said: “These allegations are scandalous, unfounded and untruthful.”

    Opposition politicians, scenting political and electoral if not legal blood, demanded an independent inquiry. François Hollande, front-runner for the Socialist nomination to challenge Mr Sarkozy in the presidential election next spring, said the book added to suspicions that the Elysée Palace had interfered in the judicial system.

    The accusations by Judge Prévost-Desprez appear in a book by two investigative journalists from the Le Monde newspaper, Fabrice Lhomme and Gérard Davet. Sarko m’a tuer (Sarko Killed Me) traces the experiences of half a dozen people who claim their careers have been wrecked or derailed by the President for political or personal reasons since 2007.

    Judge Prévost-Desprez, president of the 15th chamber of the tribunal of Nanterre, to the west of Paris, says she has been “blacklisted” by the Elysée and her career sidelined.

    While investigating the political aspects of the Bettencourt affair, she said she was struck by the “fear” exhibited by witnesses called to give evidence on alleged financial dealings between Ms Bettencourt and Mr Sarkozy’s centre-right party, the Union pour un Mouvement Populaire (UMP).

    One of them was Ms Bettencourt’s former nurse, who refused to give damning evidence in her statement but made revelations off the record. “Liliane Bettencourt’s nurse told my stenographer, after being questioned by me: ‘I saw cash payments to Sarkozy, but I couldn’t say it in my statement’,” Judge Prévost-Desprez is quoted as saying.

    The Bettencourt affair began as a family quarrel between the billionairess and her only child, Françoise Meyers-Bettencourt. A society photographer, François-Marie Banier, who had befriended Ms Bettencourt over many years, was accused of taking advantage of her age to take over €1bn in cash, bequests, art works and insurance policies. This aspect of the affair has now been settled out of court, although mother and daughter are once again quarrelling in public.

    www.independent.co.uk, 1 September 2011

  • Euro bail-out in doubt as ‘hysteria’ sweeps Germany

    Euro bail-out in doubt as ‘hysteria’ sweeps Germany

    German Chancellor Angela Merkel no longer has enough coalition votes in the Bundestag to secure backing for Europe’s revamped rescue machinery, threatening a consitutional crisis in Germany and a fresh eruption of the euro debt saga.

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    Seething discontent in Germany over Europe's debt crisis has spread to all the key institutions. Photo: AP

    By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard

    Mrs Merkel has cancelled a high-profile trip to Russia on September 7, the crucial day when the package goes to the Bundestag and the country’s constitutional court rules on the legality of the EU’s bail-out machinery.

    If the court rules that the €440bn rescue fund (EFSF) breaches Treaty law or undermines German fiscal sovereignty, it risks setting off an instant brushfire across monetary union.

    The seething discontent in Germany over Europe’s debt crisis has spread to all the key institutions of the state. “Hysteria is sweeping Germany ” said Klaus Regling, the EFSF’s director.

    German media reported that the latest tally of votes in the Bundestag shows that 23 members from Mrs Merkel’s own coalition plan to vote against the package, including twelve of the 44 members of Bavaria’s Social Christians (CSU). This may force the Chancellor to rely on opposition votes, risking a government collapse.

    Christian Wulff, Germany’s president, stunned the country last week by accusing the European Central Bank of going “far beyond its mandate” with mass purchases of Spanish and Italian debt, and warning that the Europe’s headlong rush towards fiscal union stikes at the “very core” of democracy. “Decisions have to be made in parliament in a liberal democracy. That is where legitimacy lies,” he said.

    A day earlier the Bundesbank had fired its own volley, condemning the ECB’s bond purchases and warning the EU is drifting towards debt union without “democratic legitimacy” or treaty backing.

    Joahannes Singhammer, leader of the CSU’s Bundestag group, accused the ECB of acting “dangerously” by jumping the gun before parliaments had voted. The ECB is implicitly acting on behalf of the rescue fund until it is ratified.

    A CSU document to be released on Monday flatly rebuts the latest accord between Chancellor Merkel and French president Nicholas Sarkozy, saying plans for an “economic government for eurozone states” are unacceptable. It demands treaty changes to let EMU states go bankrupt, and to eject them from the euro altogether for serial abuses.

    “An unlimited transfer union and pooling of debts for any length of time would imply a shared financial government and decisively change the character of a European confederation of states,” said the draft, obtained by Der Spiegel.

    Mrs Merkel faces mutiny even within her own Christian Democrat (CDU) family. Wolfgang Bossbach, the spokesman for internal affairs, said he would oppose the package. “I can’t vote against my own conviction,” he said.

    The Bundestag is expected to decide late next month on the package, which empowers the EFSF to buy bonds pre-emptively and recapitalize banks. While the bill is likely to pass, the furious debate leaves no doubt that Germany will resist moves to boost the EFSF’s firepower yet further. Most City banks say the fund needs €2 trillion to stop the crisis engulfing Spain and Italy.

    Mrs Merkel’s aides say she is facing “war on every front”. The next month will decide her future, Germany’s destiny, and the fate of monetary union.

    www.telegraph.co.uk, 28 Aug 2011

  • Princess Diana Death: French Authorities May Arrest British Police, Conspiracy Re-ignited

    Princess Diana Death: French Authorities May Arrest British Police, Conspiracy Re-ignited

    diana crashFrench authorities may seek an international arrest warrant for two former police chiefs, who withheld a prophetic note in which Princess Diana seemingly predicted her assassination by car crash.[1] Something she stated on more than one occasion.

    Former Scotland Yard chief Lord Condon and former Assistant Commissioner of Specialist Operations Sir David Veness, have been ordered to attend an interview in Paris to address why the note was under lock and key for 3 years following Diana’s death. If they fail to attend they will be treated as suspects. The note remained hidden even when Lord Condon’s successor Lord Stevens took over as Metropolitan Police Commissioner, suggesting the orders may have came from a higher authority.

    The note was handed to the MET by Diana’s Lawyer Lord Mishcon shortly after the 1997 Paris tunnel crash, which also claimed the lives of Diana’s boyfriend Dodi Fayed and driver Henri Paul. It drew on a meeting between Diana and the law firm where she claimed her life was in danger; the record of the meeting in the form of a hand-written note says efforts would be made to get rid of her “…be it by some accident in her car such as pre-prepared brake failure or whatever.”

    Lord Condon and Sir Veness have publicly claimed that they made the decision not to release the document unless there was a suggestion that the crash was not an accident [2], but the French Judge Gerard Caddeo may see this as withholding the very evidence that does suggest it wasn’t an accident. Under French law,“removing or concealing” evidence, which could “facilitate the discovery of a crime”, is punishable by three to five years in jail or a fine.

    Coinciding with the release of controversial Keith Allen documentary “Unlawful Killing” that suggests Diana was assassinated, this re-ignition of the case may open a whole new can of worms, right when the British establishment is being rocked by the phone hacking scandal.

    It should be noted that this isn’t the only document where Diana’s death appears to be foreshadowed. As reported by The Telegraph another document was written way back in 1993!
    A handwritten letter in which Diana, Princess of Wales claimed that the Prince of Wales was plotting to kill her so he could marry Tiggy Legge-Bourke, the former nanny to Princes William and Harry, has been shown at the inquest into her death.

    That letter reads:
    “This particular phase in my life is the most dangerous – my husband is planning ‘an accident’ in my car, brake failure and serious head injury in order to make the path clear for him to marry Tiggy. Camilla is nothing but a decoy, so we are all being used by the man in every sense of the word.”

    Even the most non-conspiratorial minded person has to scratch their head with intrigue that Diana feared for her death by orchestrated car crash as early as 1993, and then wound up dead in a car crash, while one of the notes that predicted this was subsequently hidden by police officers honored by the Queen, whose oh so Royal family would be prime suspects in an assassination of the Princess.

    So far the official story is that the Mercedes-Benz carrying the victims collided with the 13th pillar of the Pont de l’Alma tunnel, because driver Henri-Paul was intoxicated with alcohol, anti-depressants and possibly carbon monoxide, causing him to lose control of the wheel. However video surveillance at the hotel that evening show an upright Paul who appears to be in full control of his faculties. Moments before entering the vehicle he can be seen quite happily tying his shoe laces with no obvious impairment.

    The media frenzy that called Henri “drunk as a pig” [3], was well underway before samples had even been presented [4], suggesting the narrative was to some degree pre-arranged or grossly speculative. Independent forensic pathologists have reviewed the toxicology reports and concluded that the blood samples were not stored at the correct temperatures, meaning higher levels of alcohol would have been recorded due to decomposition of the blood.[5] Furthermore it was claimed that Henri-Paul had over 20% carbon monoxide blood content, which would cause any regular person severe head-aches and a lack of coordination, which again is refuted by the CCTV evidence of Paul in the hotel lobby.

    No acceptable explanation has been given for the presence of Carbon Monoxide. Initial reports claim it came from the vehicles airbags, but this was later ruled out. It seems absurd that a life saving system could release a toxic gas. It quite logically has been suggested that this intoxication came post-crash from exhaust fumes, but Henri was supposed to have died on impact rendering him unable to breath in any of the fumes. Smoking was also blamed, but Toxicologist Professor Robert Forrest ultimately had to concede that “It’s either conspiracy or cock-up.”[6] “…he could not find any logical explanation for the findings.”

    A thorough investigation needs to follow all leads and motives. The Henri-Paul claim is flimsy, so it would be worth following up on Diana’s cries for help, specifically the idea that she was to be murdered by “pre-prepared brake failure”. Such a technique for carrying out assassinations does purportedly exist within the secret services of the world. According to author Jon King it’s called the “Boston Breaks” method and involves installing hardware within a vehicle, which allows the assassination team to jam the steering column and braking functions remotely, causing the car to hurtle out of control, unable to break or steer. This is dealt with in his book Diana: The Evidence

    Also in the book The Feathermen by former SAS demolition expert and famous British explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes, he recounts the alleged assassination of Major Michael Marman via this very method.

    The Clinic had been watching Major Michael Marman, and had determined that he frequently drove along the A303 arterial road, in Wiltshire, south-west England, on personal business. While doing this, he was habitually alone, and the fact that his vehicle was a relatively flimsy Citroen 2CV meant that a crash was the perfect method to kill him. Nevertheless, the Clinic dared not tamper with Marman’s car or deploy a driver to ram him off the road, since their contractual obligation to make the death appear accidental would almost certainly come unstuck under the slightest police investigation. They therefore decided to use a proxy: an apparently random driver who would unknowingly become the Clinic’s untraceable instrument of execution, by colliding with Marman.

    Through relatively simple research, they discovered a businessman whose offices were in Plymouth and London, and who regularly drove between the two along the A303 road. This was Air Marshal (ret’d) Sir Peter Horsley, former equerry to the Duke of Edinburgh and to the Queen, and ex-Commander in Chief of Britain’s atomic strike force, who now worked for an engineering firm, ML Holdings. Study and surveillance showed that Sir Peter was due to drive from London to Plymouth for a board meeting on 11 November 1986, at a time which would mean he would pass Major Marman in the opposite direction along the length of the A303. The Clinic then entered Horsely’s garage during the night of 10-11 November, and, over an eight-hour period, fitted a ‘parasite’ braking system in the cavities of his BMW, in such a way that it couldn’t be seen on immediate inspection. This radio-controlled system was powered by a scuba-diving cylinder of compressed air, which would allow each of the car’s brakes to be applied separately, without the control of the driver.

    The next day, having practised their technique for weeks with stock cars and models, two of the Clinic members shadowed Horsely, while keeping in radio communication with a second Clinic team, shadowing Marman. As Marman’s 2CV and Horsely’s BMW approached each other along the A303, the parasite braking system was applied, and Horsely lost control of his vehicle, which was steered across the central reservation and into Marman’s path. the ensuing collision killed Marman outright, and severely injured Horsely. Horsely was initially under suspicion of reckless driving, but fortunately had a witness who had been driving behind him, who testified that he had seen a puff of smoke emerge from the rear of Horsely’s car immediately before he lost control: at inquest, the local coroner said the accident would remain unexplained. The more definitely so, since the Clinic’s parasite brake-system had been secretly removed after the accident while the BMW was impounded at the police garage facility. The Feather Men, who failed to prevent this assassination, ultimately learned exactly how this scenario unfolded when they captured and interrogated the Clinic’s chief assassin.

    In his autobiography, Sounds From Another Room, Horsley says that he was accelerating to about 60 miles an hour when the car began to react strangely. He saw a grey Volvo closing up quickly behind him and as he was about to wave it past, his BMW spun sharply to the left, the brakes screeching, and then sharply to the right and back again. This is remarkably similar to what happened to the Mercedes before it struck the pillar.

    Horsley wrote:
    “Out of the corner of my eye I saw the grey Volvo accelerating past me at high speed. My car had now developed a mind of its own as it swung broadside and skidded down the road. With a lurch it hit the central reservation, mounted the grass verge separating the two lanes of the highway and crossed over into the opposite carriageway. I had just time to see a small car approaching from the opposite direction. I hit it sideways on with tremendous force. In a split-second the driver’s horror-stricken face was visible and I heard his hoarse scream.”

    It’s worth noting the Mercedes carrying Diana had previously been stolen. The Daily Mail notes:
    It had been stolen several months before the accident and there are those who speculate that this might have been an opportunity to tamper with the car.

    The general public are familiar with Prince Charles’ affair with Camilla, but Diana’s 1993 letter claims he wanted her dead to pursue a marriage with Tiggy Legge-Bourke (the Prince’s nanny), not Camilla. In fact Camilla herself nearly died in a car accident shortly before Diana’s death [7], and as the letter states: “Camilla is nothing more than a decoy.”

    Lets suppose the massive coincidences here are simply that, coincidences, and Diana’s death was just a tragic accident. We still have two documents where Diana feared for her death via car crash. Did Charles and/or the perpetrators strike it lucky; did fate deliver a dead Diana in the exact manner they wanted?

    Or are we just being silly conspiracy theorists? If that’s the case, the alternative is to believe that Diana was a lying bitch….

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