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of a john's efforts to dr. kat about hom, indians out of their homeland a man accused of killing 3 people at the. busy curtis cultural center in paris on friday says he did so because he had a pathological hatred of foreigners. the 69 year old has been moved to a psychiatric facility. some binge of aid is in paris. more details about the attack? allegedly he got it from a friend of his who is now deceived a few years ago, and he had hidden it in his home throughout all that time. and it is legal for people to get the firearms here in france. if they belong to a hunting club, and that's apparently the story from the attacker, is that his friend was a member of a hunting club, who gave him a, an automatic pistol, which he used. ukraine's president vladimir zelinski is condemned russians shelling of a busy market in the san as killing for pleasure. at least 10 people were killed and

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a speech led to violence. this is inside story. ah, ah hello, welcome to the program, i'm hash omaha bala, curds in paris, how demanding and says following the killing of 3 members of that community on friday, and t, racism groups and thousands of other people joined rallies in the capital that sometimes escalated into violence. french police arrested a 69 year old man in connection with the gun attack. the protest says main concern is why the shooting has been declared a racially motivated incident. instead of a terror attack, or some of us are it reports? oh, battle ground parish. robbery police in protest is charged against each other in

the french capital. your dish demonstrate as they're angry at authorities response to the attack on friday, which killed 3 refugees. they want answers from the police. why did it take so long for them to respond to the attack? why have they not designated this it terrorist attack? and why wouldn't security provided to the cultural center or for it had earlier been asked for a few months on represented from jordan. we've been working on the 10th anniversary at the killing about 3 come right. 10 years later we, the kurdish women are still asking for justice. and now again, our blood is spilled in france. we are angry and the french state is responsible double. oh, the refuse to remain confined to one square where the police allowed them to protest. goodish demonstrate to see the bullets fired the attack were felt by every member of the community. as the protest, her calm down here in paris, the police and security services are out enforced. clearing the protesters from the

street. they're going from republic square to bethune square, but the anger in the streets of paris video is more video. commerce can witnesses some show on lookers overpowering the attacker. security sources say he still had multiple magazines and dozens of rounds of ammunition units witnessed the attacker targeting the coaches, center restaurant and then above his shop. he says, the 69 year old man knew where he wanted to open fire elect ocoee. real estate want us to believe it's a resist attack, but the guy was released from detention 10 days ago. in 10 days you found guns and came here a door. we want to know something we want to state to answer. don't be sure. the killings of customers among francis my good communities, protest in other cities as well. they want to know why an attack on a minority community isn't being designated a terror goods planted in court for

revenge. and unless the government can satisfy their demands, wrangler is unlikely to go away from them very well. the 0 hate speech narratives against minorities have risen sharply in france. says the run after the presidential elections in april bright and extreme right wing politicians have found hatred against migrants and others to gain popularity. president manuel macro has been accused of making a tax on his land. french muslims form one of the country's largest minorities and many have spoken of their fears of increasing prejudice and discrimination. and in sport, french players of african descent have been subjected to races, comments, and threats. some say they are only accepted as being french in france when they don't lose. ah, let's bring in our guess hamid through it is

a column is from l post. he joins us by sky from paris. joining us by skype from guttenberg is politician and political advisor, dr. kosher, while it big is she is also an activist for curtis white's dream saw. and one is a researcher in cook comparative law at university to lose capital. she joins us from to lose very won't warm welcome to the program hammered. could you explain to us the rising wave of anger among the curse in, in france while these are clearly anger in the street for the all minority in france? i think, i believe they are also due to our french citizens on the paper that do not seems to enjoy the stages of being a french, for example. because the french muslim community, the community suffers from higher encouragement in school and drop out rates and is related until very varies. and i believe now the so mainstream politicians

who open embraced islam a phobia. that's why do we have got an anger? the government did not take any action to fight these racism and discrimination today is of course g, a credit community, but it can happen for others minority in front. we need to take action from these governments and i believe that today it's a time to really act and to find these races in france was a lot of place. remember during the campaign, how one confident of all wanted to do to speak about him and to give any of the b, c, g. so i believe today it is very important to fight discrimination. during this campaign, we've seen lots of racism by getting whiskey. people packaging migrants and i'm not surprised and no one is i still need to do this. but barry cut back and there is i thought that we need to quantify it. it's a predictable ok kasha, the small,

the suspect has been described himself as a racist with a history of weapons offences. and also he has been released on j just days before the us, which is this, the, the, the main reason why people are so upset about with the stablish ment, with the police forces in france. yes, let's, let's not forget there's 2 aspects of this wise happening in france at the moment. and we've seen for many years and especially for past 10 years, the fight far right and racism is increasing in europe. and we need to cover this more. we need to raise awareness, why is ways is increasing and why is certain minorities are targeted at the same time this the right, the currently happening is from the kurdish community. mandy on this is because there's an own gap within the kurdish community. and in france, at the moment,

as we seen with the riots and but i believe sometimes it's understandable to say that they need to rise, raise their voices, but maybe they could have done it in a different way. and this is because, historically, the cut to be a target this happened on the 10th year of where the 3 college women were murdered, an estimate that the french government authorities did. unfortunately not clear this up on the cards previously as well when i target in dollars for um, as we mentioned, a few of them cost them during the division of candy in but live with. and they were too prominent kurdish leaders of the personnel office in the parties of iran. none of these were really clear off the cut feel that they all targeted agreement. but at the same time, the 69, you know,

french about the has been in prison and it's been reduced because he carried different act 4 months ago. and he said in a statement himself, on the french half said it was what it was, a racism act, and we need to the way we staple terrorism, we need to staple the racism of this kind of individual as a terrorist actor. okay, ream the many say that there is a double standard here and that the issue of racial violence, you have been prosecuted in friends as a terrorist act against civilians. indeed, 1st of all, the investigation is still going on. so clearly we are going to know more about the legend a silence, but it's sure there is this double standards,

especially in the media when such attacks are pure. and indeed, as you mentioned previously, the interior of the minister of justice declared that it might be or racially motivated attack. except that i believe that we shall not reserve the key word only to brown people. but i also think that for the entry terrorist prosecutor, they're like qualifying and again, you know, it's very hard to hear, but this is unfortunately the legal red tape to qualify and acts of terrorism many and i meant have to be gathered so far as far as i know it may have been gathered, but again the investigation is going on, but i think that is the qualification has not biggie the given just yet is because they are finding out how men proceeded. if he's part of a group of he's a loaner,

but clearly there is a double spinner in the use and a pulse. we need to figure out who we want to target here because again, the key word should not be up just for certain type of people. we don't like. how many do you agree with cosigning? the all the fact that we should put more emphasis and say more light on the rise of far right movements are populism in europe as one of the biggest reasons why we're having hate speech attacks targeting minorities. what yeah, we've seen today the point to come up in france with might have been and this is started in 2022 when the leadership of the assembly monitor not the former party, which is not do i do want us to not withdraw my unit and the father of my revenge when he was in the 2nd round against the. busy hug, we've seen a huge movement of huge protest against racism today. it's quite different. they

the populace party, they are very famous. the people don't agree with the idea of racism, of immigration. i think it's a, our failure about ignorance of the this all aspects. so i believe today the government has to act against the islamic phobia and racism. and i would like to, i would like to said that it is important to day to why not to nominate a minister against discrimination and racism. france needs this minister in order to fight these are deeply a roots in our french society. and that's why i think these are also these cherry picking a cheery story, picking increasing. this is also a manifestation of new economy through which france extract human talent from its former colony and rejected the rest, the own worthy. and i think it is very important to us to accept the minority and

to integrate them into french society. look the u. k. and we've got to the mayor in london, cheese said he got his musky bridges and he may offer on the look to luck, which is a prime minister, indicate what is about france, which are minority in the french government. we have nothing. so i believe to the front can do a very important can take a very important actions and discrimination and all the diversity in on aspect which is in the enterprise, which isn't the government, which is in all aspect. okay, kasha, you, you mentioned earlier, the trip, a murder of the code, this activist in paris, 10 years ago, one of the general sentiment among the curves in europe and in france in particular . do you think this angle is related to the fact that they see that minorities have been targeted or the curse themselves have been targeted for their own activism?

and i want to stopping it face. i think the cards and what we're seeing it in the writing paris currently are they asked pads, they are angry and they are disappointed. and at a country i can't france and in the country country where the cuts are not safe. unfortunately, as i said 10 years ago, there was explanation of 3 of and it was never cleared up. this is left the cut in disbelief and that this cause that they don't believe in the governments anymore. and then this happens on the, on the 10th anniversary. another 3 kurdish people are being targeted, of course leave the cards with and i yeah. and it was only 2 such thing when a nation i biggest nation in the world without a state. no one's hearing them out. no. was listening to the voices. they've been

targeted within their countries and then they targeted enough poorer. they fled from oppression under the common sexual in europe and in the west and, and democratic countries and democratic states. and yet they still not safe. so of course he will listen under with in, okay, when the french ministry of in t reporter 30 percent rise, embrace related crimes in the country. and you can see that the, the pattern has been on the increase over the last few years. this could bet indication, there is a huge problem with the state itself. when it comes to the o racism. you know, i have always said that, you know, the thought right might not be in power, but it's ideology is social commission has been

given for far right. supporters far right extreme is to act, you know, and it has been, you know, if the far right, today's mainstreamed is because the mainstream looks like the fall right? mainstream political parties are using fire right? a deal g in their public policy in their discourse, in their narrative. stop to the point that sometimes you don't even know if it's a foreign police, sharon or traditional politician saying such an racist you know, given the race and speech and so on and so forth. and this is real life, this is what happened when you, mainstream and ideology based on 8th grade based on and of course, besides that, the media or some type of media. and i'm thinking about opium channels. course trade 247 on a daily basis. hatred toward migrants towards refugees,

toward people of color towards muslims. and this is real life now and from rest the week we are now into action and to see people who are supposed to represent the nation who are supposed to protect their people regardless of the origins of the immigration status, that color their religion. using the far right for keep power. this is extremely dangerous for democracy and far rule of ok. hum id. now with wise of the fall right in europe. and the way they have been instrument, lising, religion is lamb in particular and anti immigration sentiment to gain more support among europeans. is that continuous? how? how do you see the future of the minorities in europe?

what the future is very hurrying for these all minorities, but i believe if the 2027 going to have in the bala, we can have extra right party in depaula in france or in europe. we've seen in italy, what's happened and this country i believe today. we need to take action in government, how to be, you know, in the round how to be in the ground. and to meet the my know, which is all my lunch is particularly discouraged community, which i'll do is i get to many times, but lot of them what i believe is today the, the political, my how to be changed in 2017. believe everything will change, new party will be emerge. but there's also a strategy for the french president mccoy in the country. that will promise that he's going to fight the remish and write to him. but he did nothing in the reality . he'd starting to both parties sweets with the far right and the

left is which is very difficult for him. this of course, what the more difficult you for him and for his own party, he's retiring for 2027 in order to put his ok on. can do that for us in 27 to when, of course, the of this a french addiction. cuz i, when, when that, what, when, because in france i've been asking for war protection. are they talking about security to be beefed up around areas where they dominantly in the work or are they talking about the need to change mindset laws in the country for people to understand that that is a huge problem. that problem has to be genuinely addressed by these published ment, i think when, because of talking about protection, they talk in general about the whole west and the international community. as i mentioned earlier, this is not the 1st time cause of being targeted. this might not be a but this might be just a racial attack. but previously that had been proved. it had been

proved. the destinations of kurdish leaders been by the oppression by the regime, by the islamic, which will be the example. and i think when cuts off people protection, they need the west and the international community to hear them to back them up to understand what the code is. a struggle really is about as we are in currently what is happening in hard to find in the around the relation that because i've been extremely targeted it gravely, the cards are being habit, militarized. they are being tortured to being killed on a daily basis. and this is not just now, it has been happening for decades and is happening in the target example. as we look at talk is i talking because the syrian, the talking because in iraq as well. so it's, it's not just in europe, but when the cousin dos for right in the west,

asking for protection. they need this to be her international committee to take actions room in the path and many times united nations paneled have been asking friends to promote equality, non discrimination diversity. but, you know, in front of a problem which is basically the obvious mate rejects the very idea of minority right? things that are not compatible with the very notion of principles of that, of public which by, it arises. things like individual rights, equality, unity and universality. but do you think that there's still a chance to change mindset or change the constitution? it's a bit more complicated. the problem in france that we have is that we have great principles, but we are not abiding by we say we are colorblind nation. we do not treat people depending on the origin that can color their religion. we protect individuals because they are humans. great on paper of the truth is the color blindness kind of

keep us in denial when it comes to racism and discrimination. there are many reports from our ombudsman, for example, the difference of rights warning the state that actions must be taken because there are people in our country born and race here who are not considered 40 french who are regularly discriminating, whether it's at work, housing, etc. so i think the main problem in friends is that we are not playing the principal. we crawled off. and if anything we have violating the very sense of our nation, which is the berkey, the best quality can for tennessee. and i find it extremely interesting. how are government but not the current one? this is, i mean, not just the trends, look the same with the left as well. and the traditional right tween how very few actions are taken to tackle discrimination. and if anything,

we use the color blindness excuse to be like we can be raised. ok, because we do not see, right. we all know that it's unfortunately accurate. i made very briefly if you don't mind is friends of races, country what i cannot generate francis races currently dimension, but some of them of course are races. ok, well i believe. yeah. if you the wind cushion what's next for the, for the cars in europe, or it's a very difficult question. and i honestly believe that the international community and europe takes the actions to backups and to understand their struggle. the way we do it for palestine and other nations is, is very important that the cuts the published and asked for at least feel safe. i hear many cousins fled from the oppression, but it's every one and every person's basic human rights to live in

a free and democratic country and feel safe. so i hope dearly and deeply that the national committee to will stop turning that back on the cuts room with, with the revise of the fall white. are we likely to see more tension in the european continent with the minorities likely to face more uncertainty? tough times i had i hope to be wrong from this law now, but we need to keep in mind and remember that the far right watch premises is a trans national movement. they connect to each other. they're in touch with each other. they use each other arguments and if we do not take the threat seriously, unfortunately this type of attack will become more normal. and again, i really hope to be wrong on this one. but we need to address it at the trans

national movement and not as an exception, because far right extremism is real and need to be tackled. and the response must be given by authorities as soon as possible. well, well, how to leave the room sought one kush on what i need. so it, i really appreciate you as i thank you. thank you for watching. you can see the program again any time by visiting our website. i'll just see it our dot com for further discussion. go to our facebook page. that's facebook dot com, forward slash ha, inside story. can also join the conversation. twitter, i'll 100 is art ha! inside starting from me, how should i bottle and the entire team here in doha. ah ah.

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