France: The Armenian genocide taught in 3rd class

September 20, 2015 By administrator

The curriculum will integrate well the teaching of the Armenian Genocide. In the curriculum draft circulated by Le Monde yesterday, we read about the third class that will be addressed in the ongoing First World War. It is particularly indicated the following: “The third class gives students the keys to understanding the contemporary world. It allows to show the magnitude of the crisis that French companies, European and world have crossed, but also social and political changes it could engender. By mobilizing the civilian as well as military, the Great War is testing the cohesion of societies and sustained weakening of regimes in places. Combatants and civilians suffer extreme violence, which particularly reflects the genocide of Armenians in 1915 “.

Nothing seems to have to change at this level. On the contrary, since the genocide issue is clearly highlighted in the few lines devoted to the program of the First World War. It therefore appears that the Ministry of Education headed by Najat Vallaud-Belkacem has resisted lobbying Ankara and its loyal supporters, as the academician Pierre Nora, who had campaigned for the removal of the teaching of the Armenian Genocide on the grounds that “choosing to focus on the Armenian Genocide in the First World War to the dedicated program falls history of ideological and electoral choice.”

France: Cash investigation – My President is on business “Baku”

September 18, 2015 By administrator

For over a year the team of “Cash investigation” has investigated the scenes of presidential trips. How large contracts are signed? What are the hidden counterparties? What about the issue of human rights when the president travels in dictatorships accompanied by fifty entrepreneurs? The first step of this investigation is taking place in Azerbaijan, one of the most repressive dictatorships in the world, when moving in May 2014 the French president. Elise Lucet asks Rachida Dati or MP Thierry Mariani, close to the Aliyev regime and also a member of the board of “The Friends of Azerbaijan”, a structure that ensures the promotion of France country and financially supported by the authorities in Baku.

FRANCE Franco-American Mark Moogalian, Thalys train hero at the Elysee

September 14, 2015 By administrator

Mark Moogalian, France, president

Mark Moogalian, one of the heroes of Thalys, was received yesterday morning by Francois Hollande. This Franco-American English teacher of Armenian origin could tell the president the attack of 21 August in which he was shot in the neck after being snatched from the hands of terrorist automatic weapons. Hospitalized for several days, Mark Moogalian was received over an hour in the company of his wife. Hollande has promised to hand over in person the Legion of Honour at the Élysée.

Monday, September 14, 2015,
Stéphane © armenews.com

FRANCE Three hundred Kurds demonstrating against the Turkish government

September 12, 2015 By administrator

Nearly 300 members of the Kurdish community of Yvelines gathered yesterday, in the evening, at Mantes-la-Jolie to denounce the Turkish government policy towards the Kurdish minority

Saturday, September 12, 2015,
Stéphane © armenews.com

Azerbaijan to sue France 2 TV channel for calling Aliyev ‘dictator’

September 10, 2015 By administrator

Azerbaijani authorities are planning to file a lawsuit against France 2 after the French state-run TV channel aired a program slamming President Ilham Aliyev as a dictator, Agence France-Presse said quoting the lawyer for the Azeri side Olivier Prado.

“France 2 journalists Élise Lucet and Laurent Richard portray Azerbaijan as one of the worst dictatorships ever,” Prado told AFP.

The Monday, September 8 edition of Cash Investigation program featured a story about French President François Hollande’s visit to Azerbaijan in spring of 2014.

However, the footage shot in Azerbaijan, including interviews with opposition activists and human rights advocates was seized from the French journalists

According to Prado, Azerbaijan “no longer intends to tolerate such attitude and has every intention to take those who slander the country to the court,” Ru.rfi.fr. reports.

Paris: RELEASE OF CCAF Azerbaijan corruption maneuvers

September 8, 2015 By administrator

The spread of cash investigation Monday, September 7th show on France 2 has cast a harsh light on corruption maneuvers engaged in by France in Azerbaijan and its president dictator, Ilham Aliev. This edifying story finally revealed to the public that the promotional activities of this country rich in petrodollars, shockingly presented here or there as “a land of tolerance”, resulting from the purchase of consciences of a number of political personalities, right and left.

The CFC which has repeatedly denounced these practices that pervert the proper functioning of democracy and that are in violation with the values of our country, France, renewed its call for the closure of the operation of this promotion state being set up by the town hall of the 1st arrondissement of Paris.

He also urged the government to report as they should be violations of human rights in Baku, the imprisonment of journalists and dissidents, particularly when they were decorated by France as is the Leyla Yunus case and the anti-Armenian racism plaguing it. A qualified racism “permanent, hysterical, passionate and dangerous” by the philosopher Michel Onfray just a trip to Azerbaijan.

National Office CCAF (Coordination Council of Armenian Organizations of France)

Tuesday, September 8, 2015,
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France: The mystery man Mark Moogalian who wrestled the AK47 from the train gunman

August 24, 2015 By administrator

Latest update : 2015-08-24,

French President François Hollande revealed on Monday the identity of the man who heroically wrestled a loaded AK47 from the gunman aboard the Amsterdam-Paris train service on Friday. Report France24

The French President has announced he will award Mark Moogalian the Legion d’Honneur, the country’s highest decoration, as soon as he is well enough.

Moogalian, a French-American professor at the Paris’ famous Sorbonne University, is undergoing medical treatment for a gunshot wound from the incident.

The 51 year-old was the first person to come to the aid of “Damian A.”, a French banker who initially confronted the attacker Ayoub El-Khazzani.

He wrestled the Kalashnikov assault rifle off El-Khazzani, who then drew a sidearm and shot Moogalian in the neck before taking back the AK47, it has emerged.

His wife, Isabella Risacher-Moogalian, told France’s Europe 1 radio that he “is among the heroes on this story”.

“I’m hit, I’m hit!”

Isabella Risacher-Moogalian described hiding behind train seats from the gunman and then seeing her husband wounded.

“He looked at me and said ‘I’m hit, I’m hit.’ He thought it was over and he was going to die,” she said.

US Airman Spencer Stone, National Guardsman Alek Skarlatos and university student Anthony Sadler also tackled the gunman on Friday as he moved through the train armed with an assault rifle and an automatic pistol. A British businessman, Chris Norman, also helped subdue the attacker.

Moogalian lives in Paris but is originally from Midlothian, Virginia, in the USA.

France: Mark Moogalian one of Hero of Thalys Train

August 24, 2015 By administrator

After a quick investigation, it is confirmed that Mark Moogalian is a Franco-American, which would be of Armenian origin, professor of English at the Sorbonne, who snatched the gun of Kalashnikov assault Moroccan terrorist Ayoub El Khazzani Friday August 21 in the Thalys train, which was heading to Paris from Amsterdam, certainly avoiding a massacre was committed.

Unfortunately during his flight, equipped with the frantic gun, Mark Moogalian is suffering from a bullet shot in the back by the attacker. He collapses then seriously wounded in the neck height, explains her sister Julia, causes damage to the nerve centers. Losing a lot of blood will be saved by the intervention of an American soldier, Spencer Stone, himself wounded in knife strokes by Morocco, while the comrades of the latter: Alek Skarlatos and Anthony Sadler finished master the terrorist with the help of English Chris Norman.

According to the sister of Mark is feared it may lose some of the functionality of his left arm.

Still in intensive care at the Hospital of Lille, Mark Moogalian dinner will be received by President of the Republic, François Hollande, once it is on foot.

To the left of the screen you can see Spencer Stone apply compression to the injury of Mark Moogalian, while on the right Anthony Sadler, Chris Norman and Alek Skarlatos master terrorist.

Professor of English at several passions, photography, painting, and alternative music.

His parents ran a grocery store in the area Hopewel Virginia. Harry his uncle and cousin Gina said they were very proud of Mark.

Moogalian Mark lives with his wife Isabelle Risacher on a barge along the Seine, called the Ark.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=T2g31Rxol-E

Paris: Known Islamists must be expelled from France, Le Pen says after train attack

August 23, 2015 By administrator

Marine Le Pen © Charles Platiau / Reuters

People known to have ties with radical Islamist groups must be expelled from France and not allowed back, the leader of the right-wing National Front Marine Le Pen said, after a suspected Islamist gunman was apprehended on a train.

“Foreigners who are known to have ties with radical Islamism must not only be filed in databases of the special services, but also immediately expelled from French territory, if they live in France. And anyway they must not be allowed entry,” said the French politician known for her anti-immigrant stance.

#AyoubElKhazzani n'aurait pas simplement dû être "fiché", mais expulsé et interdit de territoire ! Mon communiqué : https://t.co/oXLcv3P5Sa

— Marine Le Pen (@MLP_officiel) August 23, 2015

The statement came a day after a man, reported to be a 26-year-old Moroccan previously red flagged by Spanish special services for having Islamist ties, was restrained by passengers on a high-speed Thalys train. The man was carrying several weapons, including an assault rifle, and apparently intended to go on a shooting rampage.

Le Pen said in the case of the man, Ayoub El Khazzani, the French special services had demonstrated poor handling of information concerning potential security threats.

“The system doesn’t work because it doesn’t allow for the true question to be asked: why does France allow in a foreign citizen, who is known to be dangerous and connected to a murderous ideology,” she said.

“France today is a constant target for the barbarous criminals who take advantage of the lack of borders in the EU and the Schengen zone,” Le Pen added, saying that France should reestablish its national borders.

A Frenchman and two American soldiers who happened to be in the car prevented the potential massacre on the Thalys train, which was en route to Paris from Amsterdam. The would-be terrorist stabbed one of the US nationals in the altercation. Another man, famous French actor Jean-Hugues Anglade, cut his hand breaking the glass on the emergency stop button.

France: Anger as Saudi king takes over entire French beach

July 19, 2015 By administrator

By Vincent Morvan,

Vallauris (France) (AFP) – Beach lovers on the French Riviera expressed their anger Sunday over the imminent arrival of the Saudi royal family, who have ordered a long stretch of beach to be closed off to the public.

“Looking after their security is fine, but they should at least let us go for a swim,” said Mohamed, a disgruntled fishing enthusiast.

Nestled in the rocks between the coastal railway and the translucent waters of the Mediterranean, the grounds of the royal family’s immense villa stretches across a kilometre of Riviera coastline between Antibes and Marseille.

Local authorities confirmed that King Salman is due to arrive at some point this week, and that access to the entire kilometre stretch will be cut off, including the public beach at Vallauris, which can only be reached through a tunnel under the railway line.

“Access to the coast will be prohibited by police officers for the duration of the king’s holiday,” said local official Philippe Castanet.

Coastguards will also stop anyone coming within 300 metres of the villa by sea.

Beach users swung between disappointment and anger over the news.

“They take the decision and there’s nothing we can say,” said Mohamed, rinsing off his fishing rod on the beachfront.

“It’s a good fishing spot and blocking access is not acceptable.”

– Beach-to-villa elevator –

Fatima, a local nurse, had come with her two daughters for a swim.

“Whether it’s him or another billionaire, they always have priority over ordinary people. On the other hand, they are good for business, coming here with 400 people in their entourage. I heard they might even fix the roads.”

Her boyfriend Didier recalls a time when Salman’s predecessor King Fahd was visiting and the police had to forcibly remove swimmers who refused to clear out.

Workers hired by the Saudis had last week already started building the fence that will close off access to the beach, but were ordered to stop until the royal family arrives.

They had also generated a great deal of anger by starting work on an elevator from the beach to the villa, which involved pouring a huge slab of cement directly on to the sand.

The local authorities have allowed work on the elevator to continue on condition that it is dismantled when the family vacation ends.

The villa itself has become a hive of activity, with one local, Christian, saying there were dozens of people decking it out with rose bushes and other plants over the weekend.

“You can see they’ve replaced the balcony windows, no doubt to put in some bullet-proof glass,” he said.

He also pointed out what appeared to be a golden throne, positioned to soak up the sun — and a view unspoiled by the general public — on the villa’s terrace.

Source: Yahoo.com