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Church Vandalised in France: "Death to France, Long Live Islam, Long Live Bin Laden"

Tolerance and mutual respect and understanding. Sheesh.

Church Vandalised in France: "Death to France, Long Live Islam, Long Live Bin Laden" Islam vs. Europe, June 17, 2013 (thanks to Yiddy)

On Saturday morning a parishioner discovered the graffiti on the wall of the Saint John the Baptist church in Bourgoin-Jallieu. These were done with a marker on two pillars, and on a notice on a panel at the back of the church. The messages were signed GIA, which may be a reference to the armed Islamic group. [Armed Islamic Group of Algeria].

 

 

Argenteuil, France: Moderate Muslims Attending Anti-Islamophobia Rally Attack Police, Lay Seige to Town Hall

This is a pattern. A couple of days ago, a Muslim mob attacked police in France, and the attack below is related to a May 20 incident in which a Muslim mob attacked the cops.

Argenteuil France: Moderate Muslims Attending Anti-Islamophobia Rally Attack Police & Beseige Town Hall Blazing Cat Fur

NB Google translate

"At a rally against Islamophobia linked to an attack on a veiled woman on May 20, young protesters have taken this afternoon, violently, to the Commissioner of Argenteuil, as well as a other responsible local police.

Thirty young people surrounded the two police officers and have dealt their punches and kicks. The police had to be exfiltrated in the town hall.

Earlier, the deputy mayor of Argenteuil, Philippe Doucet, had come to explain to a crowd of a thousand people. Heckled and booed, he had escorted back to the mayor.

By late afternoon, the lawn of the Town Hall was still occupied by protesters. "

 

Muslim mob attacks police in France

A "full covered" niqab woman was stopped for identity purposes by cops in Argenteuil (France), when suddenly a mob of Muslims assaulted the cops. The situation went quickly out of control (cops had to leave the scene and come back with special units). Muslims mobbed the area after postings on Twitter, Facebook and other social media, urged all muslim people in the area of Argenteuil to come and protest against police.

The burka has been banned.

Des heurts ont éclaté lors la femme, en voile intégral, a été contrôlée par la police.

Argenteuil: affrontements avec la police après le contrôle d'une femme en niqab Par LEXPRESS.fr, publié le 12/06/2013 à 14:41, mis à jour à  L'Express.fr (thanks to Golem)

Alors que les policiers procédaient au contrôle d'identité de cette femme en niqab, un attroupement s'est formé et a dégénéré en affrontement avec les policiers.

Google translate:

Argenteuil clashes with police after the control of a woman niqab

By LEXPRESS.fr, published on 6/12/2013

While the police proceeded to the identity of the woman in niqab control a crowd formed and degenerated into clashes with police.

Argenteuil clashes with police after the control of a woman niqab

Clashes erupted when the woman, in full sail, was controlled by the police.
REUTERS / Pascal Rossignol

An identity that goes wrong control. Clashed Tuesday night police and bystanders in Argenteuil, Val-d'Oise, after control of a woman wearing the full veil, said on Wednesday a source familiar with the matter. While the police proceeded to the identity of this woman control a crowd formed and degenerated into clashes with police, the source said.
300 women verbalized in a year

The law of 11 October 2010 prohibits hide her face in the public space. Violation of this prohibition is punishable by a maximum fine of 150 euros. One year after the entry into force of this Act, April 11, 2011, about 300 women had been fined.

On May 20, a young woman wearing the hijab (veil covering the hair but revealing the face) was attacked on her way home in Argenteuil. President of the National Observatory against Islamophobia, Abdallah Zekri announced its desire to become a civil party in the case.
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France: Muslims Attack Man Eating a Ham Sandwich

Violent supremacism. It's one thing not to eat pork or pork products; it's quite quite another thing to force others not to, and therein lies the difference.

And that is the difference between Canon law, Jewish law and the sharia (apart from the obvious horror of the sharia). Canon law applies to Catholics, Jewish law to Jews, but the sharia asserts its authority over non-Muslims.

France: Attacked by two Muslims because he was eating a ham sandwich Jihadwatch

A few years ago, Muslim cabbies at the Minneapolis airport began to refuse to carry passengers who were carrying alcohol. It became a big controversy, as some counter-jihad activists began asking whether the cab drivers would soon begin enforcing other Sharia rules upon their non-Muslim customers. Would they, for example, refuse to carry a passenger who had a ham sandwich? Such concerns were dismissed at the time as hysterical exaggerations of what was presented as a completely innocuous attempt by the cab drivers to exercise their religious freedom. But now, with this incident, we see the next step that we predicted all those years ago: the violent enforcement of Sharia provisions on non-Muslims -- in what still is, for the moment, a non-Muslim country.

"France: Attacked By Two Muslims Because He Was Eating A Ham Sandwich," by Cheradenine Zakalwe for Islam Versus Europe, June 12 (thanks to Blazing Cat Fur):

It sounds incredible but it is being treated with great seriousness by the police in Reims police station (Marne). A 23-year-old man filed a complaint on the 8th of June after having been attacked the previous evening at 9.30 pm in a city tramway by two strangers. They struck him several times on the face because he was eating a ham sandwich. The two attackers, who claimed to be Muslims, said they were offended by this consumption of pork in front of their eyes before attacking the young man. A witness, a friend of the young man who was present when the incident occurred, has been interviewed by the investigators and has confirmed the reality of the attack. The two attackers, who fled, have not yet been found. The CCTV tapes in the tramway are currently being examined.

Source: Le Parisien, Fdesouche.com

French Government Opens Museum Honoring Muslim Homicide Bombers

Remember Sebastien Sellam. Remember Ilan Halimi. And now the French laud those who would have celebrated their murders. Europe is sinking so fast, I cannot keep up ..............

Paris museum opens exhibit of Palestinian 'martyrs' Jerusalem Post, June 8, 2013 (thanks to Golem)

Ahlam Shibli’s photo shows house of a Palestinian suicide bomber, exhibited at Jeu de Paume Museum. Photo: Jeu de Paume

A Paris museum subsidized by the French government opened an exhibition of photos of Palestinian suicide bombers, which the museum calls freedom fighters.

The exhibition of 68 photos entitled “Death” by Ahlam Shibli opened on May 28 at the Jeu de Paume museum of contemporary art in Paris.

The museum’s website describes suicide bombers as “those who lost their lives fighting against the occupation,” and the exhibition as being about “the efforts of Palestinian society to preserve their presence.”

According to CRIF, the umbrella body of French Jewish communities, the people commemorated in the photos are “mostly from the [Fatah-affiliated] al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades [of Hamas] and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.” All three are designated by the European Union as terrorist groups.

One of the photos is of Osama Buchkar, a PFLP operative who killed three people and wounded 59 in a terrorist attack he carried out at an open market in Netanya on May 19, 2002. The caption to his picture says he “committed a martyr mission in Netanya.”

In a letter Wednesday to France’s Culture and Communications Minister, Aurélie Filipetti, CRIF President Roger Cukierman said that it was “particularly lamentable and unacceptable that such a display should justify terrorism from the heart of Paris.

France: Muslims Attack Jews as they walk to synagogue in Lyon

The unholy Muslim war on the Jews is vicious, evil and unremitting. Jewish day achools under attack, Ilan Halimi, Sébastien Selam .... Jews of Europe cannot walk down the street with a religious symbol without fear of Muslim goons. And the world is silent ...... again.

Who is condemned and denounced? Jews like myself who speak out against this evil. They demand that we "respect" it? I spit on it.

"Unprovoked Attack on Jews in Lyon" Israel National News, June 2, 2013 (thanks to Choi)

Jews attacked as they walk to synagogue.

Anti-Semitism continues to plague France. According to local media outlets in Lyon, two Jewish residents of the city were attacked Saturday as they walked to a local synagogue.

The two were attacked by three men of Arab origin in an unprovoked, sudden assault.

The two Jews shouted for help. Neighbors began to arrive at the scene, and the attackers fled.

Police arrived as well, and began to investigate. They discovered that the attack had been captured on film by security cameras at a nearby store. Investigators expressed hope that the film would lead to the attackers’ quick capture.

One year ago attackers brutalized three Jewish men in an unprovoked assault in Lyon. Two of the victims were hospitalized.

A short time later the Chief Rabbi of Lyon received a letter threatening attacks on Jews.

 

Convert to Islam Arrested in Stabbing in the Neck of Soldier in Paris: "seen praying a few minutes before the attack"

Quran 8:12: I will instill terror into the hearts of the unbelievers: smite ye above their necks

Again and again details of the incident mirror all jihadi attacks .... pray then kill. Pray then kill. But dare not speak of motive.

The New York Times buries the lede in the ninth paragraph. The Muslim who stabbed a soldier in the neck on the streets of Paris "was seen on video praying a few minutes before the attack" and was “a young, recently converted Islamist.'’

"Sources said that there was no indication of any tendency toward violence in his behavior." Such idiocy is without equal.

"French Police Arrest Suspect in Attack on Soldier" By Stevem Erlanger New York Times, May 29, 2013 (thanks to Ken)

PARIS — French police on Wednesday arrested a 22-year-old man in connection with the stabbing on Saturday of a French soldier in a Paris suburb, with officials describing the suspect as a fairly recent convert to Islam.

French Interior Minister Manuel Valls said in a statement that the suspect was arrested Wednesday morning in the Yvelines region just west of Paris, following the stabbing of Pvt. Cédric Cordiez in the neck from behind with a short-bladed knife. The attack took place in the shopping mall and underground transportation hub of La Défense, west of Paris.

Officials said at the time that the attack seemed an echo of the killing and stabbing to death of a British soldier on a London street last week.

The French suspect was known to investigators, Mr. Valls said, but he urged caution and said: “I cannot talk about radical Islam.” He said investigators wanted to know more about the suspect’s “motivation, background and family environment.”

The police said he was identified thanks to video footage from the crime and traces of his DNA found on items left at the scene in a plastic bag, including a knife and a bottle.

On the French television channel i>TELE, Mr. Valls warned of a growing number of young radicals in France similar to Mohammed Merah, the Islamist gunman who killed seven people in and around the southwestern city of Toulouse last year.

Mr. Valls said there are “several dozen, perhaps several hundred, potential Merahs in our country,” saying young French Muslims were being “radicalized” on the Internet and by extremist imams.

He told Le Figaro newspaper that “no fewer than 120 French jihadists'’ were involved in fighting in Syria and about 60 percent of them were allied with Al Qaeda fighters. He said that about 30 had returned to France and were under surveillance by the French authorities.

The attacker, described by the police at the time as bearded and tall, approached Private Cordiez from behind while he was on patrol with two colleagues, stabbed him in the neck and then disappeared into a crowd. Sources close to the investigation have said to French news agencies that the suspect was seen on video praying a few minutes before the attack and that he was “a young, recently converted Islamist'’ already known to the police for his strong religious convictions and who had committed petty crimes in the past. But the same sources said that there was no indication of any tendency toward violence in his behavior.

Sixth grade math exercise in the south of France... Draw and color a swastika

Norming the symbol of evil.

A primary school teacher in Saint Clement de Rivière in the south of France had her class draw and color swastikas to illustrate the concept of symmetry in geometry. The only Jewish kid in the class took offense, parents protested and exercise was withdrawn. The case will be brought to the regional school board.

Shocked, the only Jewish student was offended. One kid with sense.

What's next, a coloring book on how to chop a man's head off?

Google translate from the French: (thanks to Diana)

The National Bureau of Vigilance Against Anti-Semitism denounces and condemns unacceptable facts that occurred in CM2 class of a primary school in St. Louis Landier Clement de Riviere (34980) or a teacher was drawing and coloring a swastika to his students.

It is a member of an association (PEEP) which alerted BNVCA after being informed by the parents of the only Jewish student in the class.

According to our correspondent, the incident occurred on the morning of Friday, May 17 in the CM2 class, following a presentation on "hitler" presented by two students. The teacher, to illustrate his geometry class, students were asked to draw and color a swastika. The aim was to explain the "symmetry. "

Shocked, the only Jewish student was offended. His parents then alerted a member of PEEP.

According to our informant, after the emotion aroused, the teacher was pulling compromising scrapbook pages of their students and the principal addressed the students in the class in question.

However, we ask the Minister of Education and the Rector of the Academy to the educational, administrative and discipline that would be required, particularly in light of this teaching method.

The BNVCA considers it desirable that a historian, or a survivor of the Holocaust, can address these students and their teachers to better understand the evils of Nazi propaganda and its symbol: the swastika.

The BNVCA welcomes the young Jewish student in this class who, despite his young age, has dared to defend both his identity and memory.

French Soldier Stabbed In Neck In Paris by Muslim

The Muslim attacker appears to be devout -- he was bearded and wearing an Islamic-style garment under his jacket. Who is the enemedia going to blame for this?

Again for those new to media scrubbing, sanitizing, deception and obfuscation, "youth gang," "Asian," "immigrant," "youth," "immigrant youth," "North African," and "Moroccan" all mean the same thing. The prohibited M word -- blasphemous under the sharia (Islamic law). 

French Soldier Stabbed In Neck In Paris SKY News (thanks to ZP)

A French soldier on patrol in Paris has been stabbed in the throat by a man believed to be of North-African origin.

The soldier was injured during the attack but will survive, said a military spokesman.

French daily Le Parisien cited police sources as saying the suspected attacker was a bearded man, about 30-years-old and was wearing an Arab-style garment under his jacket.

He fled the scene and is being sought by police.

The soldier was patrolling the business area of La Defense as part of France's Vigipirate anti-terrorist surveillance plan.

The stabbing comes just days after a British soldier was hacked to death on a London street in broad daylight in a suspected terrorist attack that has raised fears of potential copycat strikes.

New Issue Of Jihadi Magazine Dedicated To War against France

Relentless savages:

New Issue Of Jihadi Magazine Fursan Al-Balagh Dedicated To Anti-France Incitement MEMRI

The jihadi media company Fursan Al-Balagh has published the third issue of its Al-Balagh magazine (dated April-May 2013). The issue focuses mainly on anti-France incitement, in response to that country's involvement in North Mali.

Head Of AQIM Political Committee: The War With France Will Continue Until The Day Of Judgment

The magazine includes an article by Ahmad Abu 'Abdallah, head of the political committee of Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) and of its media company, Al-Andalus. The article, titled "What Is Behind the French Occupation of North Mali," calls on Muslims to unite forces and thwart the French "Crusader attack" on Muslims in North Mali. It accuses France of looting the treasures of Muslim Africa and warns that replacing the French troops with UN forces is only a means of lending international legitimacy to the ongoing "Crusader occupation" of the land. Finally, it promises that "the Muslims will restore their glory, sovereignty, and property, after hanging the last occupier by the intestines of the last collaborator ruler" and that the war against the French will continue until the Day of Judgment. Following are excerpts from the article:

Abu 'Abdallah starts by urging Muslims to unite forces in the war on "Western hegemony and the Crusader attack" against the Islamic ummah, and to start this war with a campaign to defend Mali. This is in order to put "international pressure on the exploitative, aggressive France and its beastlike partners, so that they are faced with only two options: to [fight] a losing war in which they will bleed to death, or to retreat in defeat, [after which] they will never even consider occupying [another] Muslim country."

France: Priest Attacked by Muslim, Monsignor Denounces Muslims Taking Control of District

First they came for the Jews, France dismissed it as "because of the Middle East." Then they came for the gays; France dismissed it as "isolated incidents." Now they are attacking symbols of Christianity, vandalizing churches, disrupting services and finally attacking priests.

And yet France keeps importing these supremacist killers.

France: Priest Attacked by Muslim, Monsignor Denounces Muslims Taking Control of District

Islam Versus Europe | Posted by Cheradenine Zakalwe (hanks to Armaros)

The day after the attack on Father Grégoire, Monsignor Cattenoz has spoken out strongly and denounces "people of the Muslim faith taking control of the district". The facts are taking on a political/religious dimension...

On Monday at around 8 pm, Father Grégoire from the parish of Saint-Jean was attacked by an individual. Struck on the face, the priest was unconscious on the ground until two other members of the parish arrived. This Tuesday morning at around 11 am, Monsignor Cattenoz, Archbishop of Avignon, denounced growing insecurity in the district of Saint-Ruf (while the local authority official in charge of public safety claims instead that there has been a decrease in crime in this sector), as well as the proliferation of thefts and threats towards members of the parish.

Jihad in France: Jihadi opens fire on Southern Town of Istres, Kills 3

An Al Qaeda sympathizer shot a random three people in the middle of a busy street in Southern France, killing all three. This fresh on the heels of the savage throat-slashing of the rabbi in Paris.

RTL radio station reported the man had claimed to belong to terrorist organisation Al Qaeda.

"This person has opened fire with a very powerful weapon, a Kalashnikov."

How much longer can the media cover up the jihad  motive?

Gunman kills three in 'random' shooting The Local, April 25, 2013 (thanks to Lena)

 Three people were killed in the south of France on Thursday when a gunman opened fire apparently at random in the southern town of Istres.

French President François Hollande has sent his Interior Minister to the scene of the shooting.
Three people were killed in the south of France on Thursday when a gunman opened fire apparently at random in the southern town of Istres. French President François Hollande has sent his Interior Minister to the scene of the shooting.

A gunman opened fire with a Kalashnikov rifle in the southern French town of Istres on Thursday killing three people.

A 55-year-old woman was also left slightly injured after a bullet grazed her ear and police found a Kalashnikov automatic rifle in a ditch near the scene in the small town near Marseille, police sources said.

Jihad in France: Muslim Slashes Rabbi's Throat, Screaming "Allahu akbar"

Authorities search for motive. Such asshattery is without peer. Islamic Jew-hatred -- it's in the quran.

France: Muslim screaming "Allahu akbar" slashes rabbi's throat; authorities searching for motive Jihadwatch

Here's your motive, geniuses: Muhammad said that “the last hour would not come unless the Muslims will fight against the Jews and the Muslims would kill them until the Jews would hide themselves behind a stone or a tree and a stone or a tree would say: Muslim, or the servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me; come and kill him” (Sahih Muslim 6985).

But the elites have already decided that the motive for such things can't possibly be found in Islamic texts and teachings, which are completely and utterly benign, and so they have to find the cause elsewhere. We see the same thing happening with the Boston jihad bombings.

"Escapee from psychiatric hospital slashes rabbi, son with box-cutter outside Paris synagogue," from the Associated Press, April 23 (thanks to Ali):

PARIS — An escapee from a psychiatric institution slashed a rabbi and his son with a box-cutter on Tuesday, prompting witnesses to tackle and subdue the attacker after a chase through a Paris synagogue, officials said.

The rabbi, who is in his late 40s, was recovering from surgery for a neck injury and his 18-year-old son sustained lesser injuries in the attack north of a touristic shopping area near Paris’ gilded Opera Garnier, according to police and judicial officials and Richard Prasquier, who heads CRIF, France’s largest umbrella organization of Jewish groups.

The assailant was of Iranian origin, and an official investigation was underway to determine a possible motive, Prasquier said. The attacker, now in police custody, had escaped from a psychiatric hospital near southeastern Lyon last week, said a police official on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak publicly about the matter.

Agnes Thibault-Lecuivre, a spokeswoman for the Paris prosecutor’s office, said the two victims had been wearing Jewish skullcaps, and the attacker was detained after a chase through the synagogue. The Simon Wiesenthal Center, which monitors anti-Semitic incidents worldwide, said in a statement that the assailant screamed “Allah-u-Akbar” — or “God is great” — during the attack.

France is home to the largest Jewish community in Western Europe, at some 500,000 people, which has faced sporadic bouts of anti-Semitism over the years. In one of the country’s most wrenching episodes in recent years, three Jewish schoolchildren and a rabbi were shot and killed by a radical Islamic militant in March last year in the southwestern city of Toulouse.

Muslim in France Vandalizes 14th-century St John the Baptist Cathedral

Apparently the Cathedral's ancient clock (one of the oldest in the world) prevented this Muslim from concentrating on his prayer. And Obama say, "respect it!" The ummah say, respect for me but not for thee.

Ancient astronomical clock in the Lyons, France Cathedral vandalized Lyons, March 27, 2013, Pravoslavia (thanks to Filip)

An Iranian man has broken the astronomical clock of the ancient Catholic Cathedral in the French town of Lyons. According to "Le Progres.fr", on March 23, a 28-year-old citizen of Iran tried to put out of action the mechanism of the 14th-century clock in the St John the Baptist Cathedral with an iron bar. A part of the mechanism has been damaged. The vandal was arrested soon. He explained his conduct thus: splendor of the clock prevents him from concentrating on prayer, reports Sedmitza.ru.

The St. John Cathedral in Lyons, which was built between 12th and 15th centuries, is a UNESCO World Heritage site. The Cathedral preserves functional the astronomical clock, which is the oldest in France and one of the oldest in the World. The clock was constructed in the 14th century, and restored after destruction by Huguenots in the last quarter of the 16th Century. It received its current Baroque appearance in 1655. In the 18th century it obtained a dial with a hand. The clock indicates hours, minutes, dates, position of the Sun and the Moon relative to the Earth and also rising of the brightest stars above Lyons. The clock’s chime is accompanied by movements of figures situated in the upper part of the clock depicting scenes on religious themes, and can be heard four times a day.

Jewish Filmmaker Beaten Unconscious by Muslims at French Film Festival

Islamic Jew-hatred, hey, it's in the quran. Respect it!

Report: Israeli Filmmaker Yariv Horowitz Beaten by Arabs While in France Attending Film Festival Algemeiner, March 28, 2013

Israeli media is reporting that Israeli filmmaker Yariv Horowitz was attacked and assaulted in France by a group of Arabs. Horowitz was in the country attending the Aubagne Film Festival, where his film “Rock Ba-Casbah” won an award. According to Israel’s Channel 2, Horowitz was jumped by the assailants in a racially motivated attack shortly after the screening of his film. He lost consciousness but after being treated on the spot was able to return to the festival.

The Algemeiner was unable to reach festival organizers for comment.

#MyJihad in France: French ex-policeman captured waging jihad in Mali

Joining millions of other jihadists, a devout Muslim appears to have misunderstood or succumbed to some mass Muslim mob delusion (that or he read the quran). Looks like my next bus ad is writing itself. So many jihadists, so few buses:

"French ex-policeman captured waging jihad in Mali" France 24, March 18, 2013

The sister of an Algerian-born French jihadist captured fighting French forces in northern Mali has revealed that her brother had served as a policeman in France, and hoped he would “pay dearly” for betraying his country.

A French citizen caught in early March waging jihad in Mali against his own country was once a serving police officer, his sister revealed on Monday.

Named only as Djamel, the 37-year-old French national of Algerian birth had joined the gendarmerie, a national police force that is part of the French military, at the end of the 1990s.

He then moved on to the plainclothes BAC (Anti-Criminal Brigade) and had ambitions of joining France’s notorious CRS riot police, his sister “Sonia” (not her real name) told RTL radio.

But when his career in law enforcement ended and his marriage broke down, Djamel drifted towards religious extremism before finally setting off to wage holy war in Africa.

He was taken prisoner at the beginning of March during French-led operations in northern Mali to flush out Islamists who had occupied the vast semi-arid region for ten months.

French city grants honorary citizenship to murderer of Israeli minister

On the eve of the anniversary of the slaughter of Jewish children and a Rabbi at a Jewish Day School in France by a devout Muslim comes this pro-annihilationist move by the repulsive and notoriously anti-semitic French. More proof that dog and pony shows are utterly meaningless and invariably provide cover and sanction for jihadists.

French city grants honorary citizenship to murderer of Israeli minister
 by Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik, PMW

 

Terrorist Majdi Al-Rimawi was sentenced to life imprisonment plus 80 years for participating in the planning and murder of Israeli Minister Rechavam Zeevi in 2001.

 

A few weeks ago, the city of Bezons in France decided to grant Al-Rimawi "honorary citizenship." The inscription on the plaque prepared by the municipality of Bezons referred to Al-Rimawi as a "political prisoner."

 

Al-Rimawi participated in Zeevi's murder and was a member of the terrorist organization PFLP, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.

 

Palestinian Media Watch has documented that Palestinian terrorist prisoners are actively glorified by the PA and even receive PA salaries. In this case, the French city of Bezons directly supports this PA policy by itself glorifying the Palestinian terrorist.

 

The following is the story as reported on PA TV:
   

PA TV host: "The French city of Bezons awarded honorary citizenship to the prisoner Majdi Al-Rimawi from the village Bani Zeid Al-Gharbiyya. This title and award were given during an official ceremony held in France, to which the wife of the prisoner, Fathiya Al-Rimawi, was invited... Prisoner Majdi Al-Rimawi, of course, has been jailed in the occupation's (i.e., Israeli) prisons for 11 years and is sentenced to life imprisonment plus 50 years (80 years, -Ed.)"

Terrorist Al-Rimawi's wife: "This connection between the city of Bezons and the Municipality of Bani Zeid Al-Gharbiyya began in 2008... The matter of prisoners in our region caught the attention of [our] French brothers, and they decided to honor them by granting honorary citizenship to a prisoner from this area. Of course, all prisoners deserve all the good, all the honor and all the admiration, from the smallest of them to the greatest, from the most lenient sentence to the heaviest sentence. However, as part of the historical ties [between the municipalities], and since we in the [Bani Zeid] municipality started the relationship with the French brothers, prisoner Majdi Al-Rimawi was the one chosen to be recognized and granted this honorary award. For us, the family of the prisoner, this award is a great gesture from the French [people] and [shows their] support of the issue of Palestinian prisoners in general, and in particular the issue of prisoners sentenced to long prison terms."

PA TV focused on a plaque from the city of Bezons, which included the following dedication (in French):

"The city of Bezons has promoted

Mr. Majdi Irhima Al-Rimawi

[to]  Honorary Citizen

at the extraordinary city council on February 13, 2013" 

PA TV also zoomed in on the following text:
On the left:

"An olive branch for the Palestinians (literally "olive tree").

A state for the Palestinians on the 1967 borders.

A city for peace and solidarity."

On the right:

"In solidarity with the Palestinian people, on February 13, 2013, the city council promoted Majdi Irhima Al-Rimawi (political prisoner) to the rank of honorary citizen of the city of Bezons."

[PA TV (Fatah), Feb. 20, 2013]

The Mayor of the city of Bezons, Dominique Lesparre, made a speech at the ceremony in which he justified the acts of the terrorist convicted of murder, calling him a "victim." He also defended all 4,500 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons as "Palestinian resistance." The transcript of his speech was posted on his blog:

Dominique Lesparre, Mayor of Bezons:

"Majdi is a direct victim of this occupation... As are the 4,500 Palestinian resistance [fighters] who were imprisoned for having dared to defend their country against an occupier whose military means are oversized and whose methods constantly violate UN resolutions and international law."

(French original: "Majdi est une victime directe de cette occupation... Comme le sont aussi les 4 500 résistants palestiniens emprisonnés pour avoir osé défendre leur pays face à un occupant dont les moyens militaires sont surdimensionnés et dont les méthodes violent sans cesse les résolutions des Nations Unies et le droit international.")
[http://dominiquelesparre.com/2013/02/17/majdi-ihrima-al-rimawi-prisonnier-palestinien-fait-citoyen-dhonneur-de-la-ville-de-bezons/,
posted Feb. 17, 2013, accessed March 10, 2013]

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Judge Clears Path for Trial Against French Bank's Hamas Accounts
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