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FRENCH STUDENTS CONDEMN EXPULSION OF FOREIGN STUDENTS
Prensa Latina
Oct 17 2013
Escrito por Elizabeth Alvarez Velazquez
jueves, 17 de octubre de 2013
17 de octubre de 2013, 10:28Paris, Oct 17 (Prensa Latina) High school
students blocked the entrance to four school centers today to protest
the expulsion of foreign students, like the gypsy Leonarda Dibrani
and the Armenian Khatchik Kachatryan.
Leonarda was arrested by the police on a field trip in Doubs department
on October 9th, and deported to Kosovo the same day along with
her family.
The case has aroused a political firestorm, even inside the ruling
Socialist Party, occurring shortly after Manuel Valls, Interior
Minister, accused gypsies of lacking willingness to integrate into
French society.
"Leonarda is a tree that obscures the forest," Pascal Durand, French
secretary for the European Green Party said, denouncing the deportation
of at least 40 foreign students in recent years.
One of them, the young Armenian Kachatryan, a student at the Paris
high school Camille-Jenatzy, was arrested during an identity check
and expelled from the country on October 12, after being held under
arrest for weeks at an immigrant detention center.
His classmates held several protests against that measure and today,
along with hundred of students from other high schools, blocked
the entrances to the Maurice-Ravel, Helene-Boucher, Charlemagne and
Sophie-Germain schools in Paris.
Steven Nassiri, spokesman for the demonstrators, called the denial
of universal education unacceptable.
http://www.plenglish.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1962671& Itemid=1
Prensa Latina
Oct 17 2013
Escrito por Elizabeth Alvarez Velazquez
jueves, 17 de octubre de 2013
17 de octubre de 2013, 10:28Paris, Oct 17 (Prensa Latina) High school
students blocked the entrance to four school centers today to protest
the expulsion of foreign students, like the gypsy Leonarda Dibrani
and the Armenian Khatchik Kachatryan.
Leonarda was arrested by the police on a field trip in Doubs department
on October 9th, and deported to Kosovo the same day along with
her family.
The case has aroused a political firestorm, even inside the ruling
Socialist Party, occurring shortly after Manuel Valls, Interior
Minister, accused gypsies of lacking willingness to integrate into
French society.
"Leonarda is a tree that obscures the forest," Pascal Durand, French
secretary for the European Green Party said, denouncing the deportation
of at least 40 foreign students in recent years.
One of them, the young Armenian Kachatryan, a student at the Paris
high school Camille-Jenatzy, was arrested during an identity check
and expelled from the country on October 12, after being held under
arrest for weeks at an immigrant detention center.
His classmates held several protests against that measure and today,
along with hundred of students from other high schools, blocked
the entrances to the Maurice-Ravel, Helene-Boucher, Charlemagne and
Sophie-Germain schools in Paris.
Steven Nassiri, spokesman for the demonstrators, called the denial
of universal education unacceptable.
http://www.plenglish.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1962671& Itemid=1