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Paris court defends racist provocateurs exploiting plight of homeless
The Paris Administrative Tribunal has twice defended the right of an openly racist organisation, Solidarité des Français (SDF), to offer pig soup to homeless people in Paris, deliberately excluding those whose religion or customs forbid this food.
The anti-racist organisation MRAP (Movement against Racism and for the Friendship between the Peoples) reported in a January 2 statement that the previous evening the SDF had given out pig soup to some 30 homeless people in front of Montparnasse station in the 15th arrondissement of Paris, “thus deliberately excluding Parisian homeless people of the Jewish or Muslim religions who do not eat pork.”
The Paris police banned the SDF’s soup distributions but, on appeal by the organisation, the Paris Administrative Tribunal quashed the police order on December 22, and on December 28 supported another appeal against a further ban by the police authorities.
The tribunal’s judge issued a statement: “These two rulings recognise that this organisation is pursuing manifestly discriminatory aims against people whose religion forbids them to eat pig meat.” It asserts, however, “that only a risk of a public disturbance authorises the tribunal to issue a ban on an action” and that “the police chief had in no way given proof of such a risk.”
The judge asserted that, as there was no evidence that the SDF had refused to serve Jews and Muslims, it could not be accused of discriminating against them. The Paris police préfecture were ordered to pay €1,000 in costs to the group.
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http://wsws.org/articles/2007/jan2007/fran-j13.shtml
The Paris police banned the SDF’s soup distributions but, on appeal by the organisation, the Paris Administrative Tribunal quashed the police order on December 22, and on December 28 supported another appeal against a further ban by the police authorities.
The tribunal’s judge issued a statement: “These two rulings recognise that this organisation is pursuing manifestly discriminatory aims against people whose religion forbids them to eat pig meat.” It asserts, however, “that only a risk of a public disturbance authorises the tribunal to issue a ban on an action” and that “the police chief had in no way given proof of such a risk.”
The judge asserted that, as there was no evidence that the SDF had refused to serve Jews and Muslims, it could not be accused of discriminating against them. The Paris police préfecture were ordered to pay €1,000 in costs to the group.
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http://wsws.org/articles/2007/jan2007/fran-j13.shtml
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