Manuel Valls, the current government’s Minister for Internal Affairs, declares during the visit of the mosque of Ozoir-la-Ferrière (Seine-et-Marne) which has been subject to racist inscriptions that ‘France never tolerated any acts or words directed against Muslims. France will always protect the Muslims of France”. The ministers speech was part of a set of speeches…
This Le Figaro interview features Jacques Myard, member of the National Assembly (UMP) who represents the Yvelines department, and Mohammed Moussaoui, president of the CFCM (the French Council of the Muslim Faith). The former expresses the necessity to ban burqas in France to protect the status of women, while the latter claims that such a…
Police internal documents were recently released from an internal competition for police offers after a complaint of racial discrimination was filed in Yvelines. In September 2007 a corporal of Moroccan-origin, who had served in the police for 8 years, had passed a competition for promotion and went before a 7-person jury. This jury asked the…
