Hundreds of French riot police were deployed on Wednesday night to help quell the violence in tense Paris suburb of Villiers Le Bel, after the death of two boys in a motorcycle accident triggered violent clashes last week. Despite isolated incidents of a few burning cars, the suburb returned to a general calm as security…
Nuovi Italiani, Italy’s first party for immigrants, criticized the country’s government for its poor handling of illegal immigration, after the death and drowning of at last 18 would-be migrants in their attempt to reach land. The party’s president, Musapha Mansouri slammed the government’s lack of action in addressing the phenomenon, citing that the Mediterranean is…
Approximately 40 illegal Algerian immigrants escaped from a shelter in Barcelona on Friday. The escapees seized the opportunity of fires in the shelter, as guards were busy trying to extinguish the flames. The conditions of the shelter are rumored to be very poor, and the fires were intentionally set by those seeking to escape from…
{Racial and religious minorities tend to be under-represented in legislatures} The political representation of racial minorities troubles in almost every country, rich or poor. At one end of the income scale, Switzerland held an election on October 21st that turned on the treatment of foreigners-perhaps understandably in a country where a fifth of the population…
PARIS – France’s ethnic minorities are trapped in social and economic “ghettos” because of an “insidious racism” tolerated by French politicians, a senior UN envoy warned Friday, September 28. “Racism is alive, insidious and clearly targeted at those ‘visible’ minorities of immigrant heritage, the majority of whom are French citizens,” UN independent expert on minority…
