This week four elementary school children were "terrorized" and grilled during more than 11 hours of detention by French police over false allegations of "justifying terrorism," according to the children’s parents.
In an exclusive interview with Anadolu Agency, parents of the four children living in Albertville, southeastern France – all 10 years old, three of Turkish descent, one of Algerian descent – denounced the police’s excessive use of force this Thursday.
Before 7 a.m., the police knocked [on the door] in such a way as to almost break it," said Yildirim, the Franco-Turkish father of E.Y., speaking in an evident state of shock.
"10 masked policemen carrying big weapons entered the house," he said, remembering the police’s
he said, remembering the police’s aggressiveness and shouting.
The police woke up E.Y., Yildirim’s 10-year-old daughter, and and told them they were taking her to the police station, he recalled.
"They took pictures of the wall decorations, tried to find clues by searching
clues by searching the whole house,” he said.
Later, at the police station, “They asked us a lot of questions about our religious beliefs, if we do prayers, etc.”
"They questioned both of us, my wife and I, for two hours.
Apart from questions about our religion, they asked us what we thought about the tense relationship between [French President Emmanuel] Macron and [Turkish President Recep Tayyip] Erdogan," said the father, calling the questions disrespectful and provocative.
Like they did in the morning, they clearly wanted to terrorize us with the noise and the excessive violence. I don’t understand: 10 overly armed police officers, trying to, it seems, to break down our door, to come and get my 10-year-old daughter, who was still asleep."
According to the father, the 11-hour detention of his daughter and the police’s "overly aggressive and quite frightening" behavior might concern what the children said after a classroom discussion of blasphemous cartoons of the Muslim Prophet Muhammad a
discussion of blasphemous cartoons of the Muslim Prophet Muhammad and last month’s murder of a teacher who showed the cartoons in class.
Though his daughter might have said something about the murder, explained the father, she is only 10 and "knows nothing about that."
These aren’t things we talk about at home," he said, adding that "everyone knows our family after 20 years of living here. The school knows us very well; we had several children who went to the same school. If there was a concern about radicalization with us, everyone would know
E.Y., the 10-year-old girl detained by police for some 11 hours, told Anadolu Agency when her teacher asked what she thought about the murder of the teacher “I told her that I was sorry that he’s dead but nothing would have happened if he hadn’t showed the cartoons.”
My teacher just responded. ‘Okay, I understand,’ and that was it,” she related.
On her long detention by police, she said: “I was very scared. This is the first time something like this happened to me.”
She added: “The police asked if I go to mosque
She added: “The police asked if I go to mosque, and I told them I go there on Saturdays and Sundays.”
She said the experience left her very shaken.
No response from police or school
The Albertville police told Anadolu Agency that they could not give information on the
not give information on the detention of the four children.
The parents interviewed by Anadolu Agency also said the police refused to provide them with documentation on the reason for the detention of their children or their questioning.
According to the father, two of the four children taken by the police were transported to Chambery, an Alpine town in southeastern France.
The school where the incident took place did not respond to Anadolu Agency's request for comments.
By @TrevorPTweets: "The greatest tragedy in all of this is that the gurus of wokedom '
What amazes me is that y'all were supporting the same gurus of wokedom' the Queer Theory Activists
against a minority within a minority who you framed as reactionary & hateful extremists
In the interests of a real freedom, of speech and of conscience,
we stand with French educators under threat from this ideologically-driven attack by politicians, commentators and select academics.
We are concerned about the clear double standards regarding academic freedom in the attack on critical race and decolonial scholarship mounted by the manifesto.
In opposition to the actual tenets of academic freedom, the demands it makes portray any teaching and research into
portray any teaching and research into the history or sociology of French colonialism and institutionalised racism as an attack on academic freedom.
French liberalism as a rationale for the brutal colonisation of millions of peoples across Asia and Africa – what it called its “mission civilisatrice” (civilising mission). This violence is as much part of French history as its revolutionary triad
This violence is as much part of French history as its revolutionary triad of liberté, égalité, and fraternité (liberty, equality and fraternity).
It is only the latter, however, that is ever mentioned as France’s contribution to modernity.
There is seldom a reckoning with the dark underbelly of liberalism, and the unparalleled violence that was, and continues to be, meted out to its historic Others.
But Muslims – having borne the brunt of French (and other) colonialism, imperialism and racist violence –
We in the Jewish community sometimes forget how much we owe Islam.
It was the great Islamic theologians and thinkers — among them al-Farabi, Ibn Sina (Avicenna), and Ibn Rushd (Averroes) — who recovered the classical tradition of philosophy,
It was the great Islamic theologians and thinkers — among them al-Farabi, Ibn Sina (Avicenna), and Ibn Rushd (Averroes) — who recovered the classical tradition of philosophy, leading the West out of the Dark Ages.
Maimonides, one of the greatest Jewish thinkers in the past 1,000 years, was also deeply indebted to them. Throughout his masterwork, The Guide for the Perplexed, he is in constant dialogue with the Mutakallimun, or the Muslim Kalamists.
'The march of wokeism is an all-pervasive new oppression
Culture Wars Do Matter'
Funny Our Trevor was in the Media Culture War against Birmingham Parents Rights Protesters 2019 who stood AGAINST this same march of wokeism
They got framed as hateful extremists
"40 yrs trying to ensure people weren't judged by their race or gender
I assured him I wouldn't hold his colour..."
what about religion Trevor ?
Not only were all the ' progressive'/ intellectual elite/Birmingham CC/Schools/MP's/DfE/Ofsted/ EHRC
all behind No Outsiders Queer Theory-led projects at both protests schools in 2019
Parents were framed by @TrevorPTweets 'enemy at the gates '