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| Subject: Thousands protest state of emergency in France Mon Feb 01, 2016 12:26 am | |
| A protester in Paris next to a banner calling for an end to the state of emergency. Photo: Boris Horvat / AFP Thousands of people marched through Paris and in other French cities on Saturday to decry the proposed extension of a state of emergency imposed after the November Paris attacks.
Braving driving rain and shouting slogans including "state of emergency -- police state" the marchers protested loudly against a measure they see as curbing human rights. Police put participation at 5,000 while organisers said some 20,000 people took part. Protesters took to the streets in more than a dozen other cities including Toulouse and Bordeaux in the south in marches organised by unions, human rights organisations and other pressure groups. Rights groups also reject a government plan to strip convicted French-born terrorists of their citizenship if they have a second nationality. That proposal has already triggered the resignation of Justice Minister Christiane Taubira who stood down in protest over the plan this week after the constitutional reforms were presented to parliament.
http://www.thelocal.fr/20160131/thousands-protest-french-state-of-emergency |
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