Paris to memorialize Tunisian revolution figure Bouazizi

News Agencies – February 8, 2011 City councillors in Paris unanimously adopted a proposal to name a street, square or other site after Mohammed Bouazizi, the Tunisian vegetable vendor whose protest suicide sparked that country’s Jasmine Revolution. The proposal had been brought forward by Tunisian-born Mayor Bertrand Delanoe. Bouazizi, 26, doused himself with petrol and…

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