A video is causing uproar in France | DAL

La vidéo de l’expulsion et des violences policières à la cité des 4000 à La Courneuve, diffusée par Mediapart sur le web, a provoqué un tollé. Les images du DAL, qui montrent des femmes et des enfants brutalement délogées par des policiers le 21 juillet, ont été commentés par de nombreuses chaînes de télévision étrangères,... En voici quelques unes (vidéo) :

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NTDTV : French Police Accused of Roughly Evicting Protesting Immigrants.
A video is causing uproar in France. It shows police dragging away women of African origin. The women were demonstrating against their eviction from a block of flats. In the video, one can see a mother being dragged on the floor with her baby on her back. In another scene, a pregnant woman is lying apparently unconscious on the ground.

The video was shot on July 21 and was published by the website Mediapart.fr. It had almost 500 thousand hits by Sunday. After the video was released, police authorities issued a statement. The statement says police had used normal force in this kind of situation. It adds that policemen could not see the child attached on the back of his mother when she was pulled away.

Jean-Baptiste Eyraud, Spokesman for « The Right to a Roof » : « When I saw those pictures I must say I was shocked. I didn’t think such a level of brutality was possible. To launch against babies and pregnant women… it’s violent. » Jean-Baptiste Eyraud is the spokesman of an association that helps immigrants find accommodation. He was present on the day but was arrested before the police intervention.

Jean-Baptiste Eyraud, Spokesman for « The Right to a Roof » : « We think there should be an investigation to understand how this happened. The explanations by the local authorities are not satisfying when they say they were warned and they didn’t leave, the mother lied down on her baby, that’s absurd, the baby fell off his mother’s back because she was dragged on the floor and that’s it. So we need sanctions to be taken. Otherwise we can suppose that the police will continue brutal interventions. »

Eyraud added, « We are very worried because we feel a climate of repression settling, a brutal and violent one, which will result in those images we see now but maybe others too. »

The families were expelled in early July this year. They have set up camp in front of the flats. According to Eyraud, the baby in the video is doing well but is still under medical observation.

CNN International : Police filmed dragging women and babies during protest.
London, England (CNN) — A video has emerged showing French police evicting African immigrants with babies and children during a housing protest in a Paris suburb. Police arrived in the north-east Parisian suburb of La Courneuve last Wednesday and asked a group of about 60 mostly women and children to move, said Michael Hajdenberg, a journalist with the French media organization Mediapart.

The group had been living in the street since being evicted from their council homes on July 8 to make way for a new housing project, he said. When the group failed to respond to the request, Hajdenberg said police officers forcibly removed them. Authorities had offered to accommodate them for a short period in hotels, but Hajdenberg said the immigrants wanted more of a long-term guarantee of places to live.

The video shows police dragging away women with babies and young children. In one scene a woman with a baby wrapped to her back is dragged along the pavement while screaming and shouting. Another scene shows what appears to be a pregnant woman lying on her back on the street. Police can also be seen carrying women away while children and babies are screaming.

The immigrants are mostly from the Ivory Coast, said Michael Hoare, a spokesman for the campaign group Right to Housing. « Most of them have been in France for between 3 to 10 years. Some of them have papers, some of them don’t. They have submitted demands to be legalized, » Hoare told CNN.

Hoare said that on the day of the incident, 21 July, police had evicted journalists from the vicinity but that a member of DAL, a French rights group, had managed to film the scenes. The arrested protesters were released later the same day and have since accepted short-term hotel accommodation, Hoare said. « Because the experience was so traumatic they have ended up accepting the offer to go into the hotel and there are meetings going on about their future, » he said.

Commissioner Christian Lambert from the Police Commissioner’s office of the town Bobigny said in a written statement : « An eviction is never a[n] simple procedure when there is resistance involved on behalf of those being evicted. »

Regarding the scene in which a mother is dragged with her child on her back, the statement read : « The officers were not able to dislodge her by pulling on her arms because her arms were linked with people on both sides. Therefore they moved her by pulling on her legs. Within a meter or so the baby is dislodged and become apparent to another officer who immediately picks it up. » The statement added : « The situation of the evicted squatters is currently being examined to see if they can be re-housed depending on different criteria. »

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Đoạn video quay cảnh cảnh sát Pháp lôi phụ nữ và trẻ em nhập cư trên đường phố đang gây sốc trong dư luận nước này. Những hình ảnh bạo lực đó diễn ra tại một vùng ngoại ô của Paris.

Thành viên của nhóm nhập cư gồm 60 người đang phải sống vật vạ trên những con đường ở quận La Courneuve, thủ đô Paris kể từ khi bị thu hồi nhà hôm 8/7. Giới chức Pháp đang có ý định triển khai một dự án nhà mới nên những người dân này buộc phải ngủ ngoài đường. Những đứa trẻ khóc ré lên khi bị lôi ra từ chiếc địu trên lưng mẹ. Nhóm phụ nữ gào thét và bị hai nhân viên mặc đồng phục khênh đi. Trên đường phố, một phụ nữ bụng bầu nằm bất tỉnh trên đường trong khi những người xung quanh đang cố chống cự lại sự khống chế của cảnh sát.

CNN đưa tin, hầu hết nhóm người dân nhập cư đó đến từ bờ biển Ngà. Nhiều người trong số họ đã sống ở Pháp từ 3 đến 10 năm. Không ít người trong số đó có giấy tờ nhưng nhiều người thì không. Vụ « giải tỏa » trên không khiến ai bị thương hoặc thiệt mạng.

VG Nett. Denne videoen fører til proteststorm i Frankrike.

VG Nett : En filmsnutt som viser politiets hardhendte behandling av husokkupanter i Paris, kaster nytt lys over de franske myndighetenes kamp mot kriminalitet. Det er en representant for interesseorganisasjonen Droit au Logement (på norsk : « Rett til bolig ») som har filmet hendelsen, ifølge The Guardian.

Videoen viser hvordan en gruppe franske polititjenestemenn går til aksjon mot en gruppe afrikanske husokkupanter utenfor en boligblokk i bydelen La Courneuve, nordøst i Paris. I et forsøk på å bryte opp menneskemengden går enkelte av betjentene hardt til verks. Blant annet blir en kvinne slept etter bena langs asfalten med et lite barn på ryggen.

Videoen har ført til en storm av protester mot franske myndigheter, som beskyldes for å splitte det franske samfunnet i to. Det pågår nå en opphetet innvandringsdebatt i landet.

Normalt vil ikke politiet oppføre seg slik, og jeg er redd vi ser slik atferd stadig oftere. Det er presidenten som bestemmer over politiet, og de føler seg beskyttet, sier Jean-Baptiste Ayrault, talsmann for « Rett til bolig ».

Politiet i Seine-Saint-Denis avviser kritikken, og peker på at husokkupantene hadde fått tre advarsler i forkant av aksjonen.

Operasjonen ble gjennomført innenfor gjeldende regler, heter det i en uttalelse.

Come-On. Schock-Video : Brutale Aktion gegen Frauen und Kinder.

La Courneuve - Die Organisation « Droit au Logement » wirft der Polizei von La Courneuve vor, brutal gegen afrikanische Einwanderinnen und deren Kinder vorgegangen zu sein. Sehen Sie das Video, das in Frankreich für Empörung sorgt :

Aus Afrika stammende Frauen sind darauf zu sehen, die vor einem Wohnblock in La Courneuve gegen die Räumung des Hauses protestieren. Vor dem Gebäude hatten sie ein Camp aufgeschlagen. Als die Frauen, einige mit ihren Kindern, sich der Räumung durch die Polizei widersetzen, kommt es zu diesen Szenen. Eine Frau und ihr Baby werden über den Boden geschleift, auch eine schwangere Frau ist zu sehen, die offenbar bewusstlos auf dem Boden liegt. Ein Mitglied der Organisation « Droit au Logement », die sich für das Recht auf Wohnraum einsetzt, hatte die Bilder am 21. Juli aufgenommen.

Nun diskutiert Frankreich : Hat die Polizei massiv überreagiert ?

Jurnalul National. Scandal la Paris, după ce poliţia ar fi brutalizat imigranţi africani.

Un clip video în care se poate vedea cum poliţiştii francezi târăsc o femeie imigrantă şi pe copilul ei din mijlocul unui grup de protestanţi a alimentat acuzaţiile cum că preşedintele Nicolas Sarkozy a început să apeleze la un regim autoritar.

Deşi poliţia susţine că imaginile sunt înşelătoare, filmul aparentei arestări brutale din nordul Parisului de luna trecută coincide cu o campanie agresivă a lui Sarkozy împotriva criminalităţii şi imigranţilor, prin care doreşte să îşi refacă imaginea de politician.

În materialul postat pe mai multe site-uri video, o femeie însărcinată, de origine africană, ţipă în timp ce este târâtă de poliţie. O altă femeie, cu un copil legat de ea, este trasă pe jos de ofiţerii de poliţie. Filmul a fost înregistrat pe 21 iulie în La Courneuve, când poliţia a spart o demonstraţie de 150 de oameni, majoritatea femei africane, care protestau faţă de evacuarea din adăposturile ilegale dintr-un bloc.

Deşi incidentul a trecut fără prea multe reacţii la vremea respectivă, grupurile care apără drepturile oamenilor fără adăpost şi ale imigranţilor au folosit clipul video pentru a atrage atenţia asupra « agresivităţii unor poliţişti ». Acuzaţiile vin într-un moment în care preşedintele Franţei este criticat că a lansat mai multe măsuri dure pentru a muta atenţia de la scandalurile politice care îi afectează imaginea şi de la sondajele ce reflectă o scădere a popularităţii sale.

Arestările au precedat campania « Să fim duri » a lui Sarkozy, însă ele au avut loc chiar în zona « La Cité des 4,000 », unde preşedintele a ameninţat mai demult că va folosi un furtun industrial pentru a curăţa găştile de drogaţi.

Un purtător de cuvânt al poliţiei a spus că scurtul clip video a fost editat înşelător. « Femeia cu copil s-a aruncat singură la pământ şi poliţiştii au încercat doar să o ridice şi să o evacueze paşnic, precum au procedat şi cu ceilalţi manifestanţi ».