Protesters Pelt French Embassy with Tomatoes to Demand Georges Abdallah's Release
إقرأ هذا الخبر بالعربية
Protesters demanding the release of Georges Ibrahim Abdallah from jail in France staged a demonstration in front of the French Embassy on Sunday.
The protesters angrily pelted tomatoes and eggs at the embassy, reported LBCI television.
It added that the gatherers stressed that they will continue their “peaceful and democratic” actions against French interests in Lebanon until Abdallah's release.
These include banks, companies, and institutes.
They added that their actions will remain peaceful and they will not storm any of the establishments, said LBCI.
For his part, Abdallah urged in a recording his supporters to maintain their actions until his release, it reported.
Furthermore, the supporters had hoped that the Lebanese government would intensify its contacts with French authorities to ensure Abdallah's release.
On Saturday, several protesters demonstrated the French United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon peacekeepers in the southern village of Deir Kifa over the ongoing detention of Lebanese leftist militant Georges Abdallah.
They accused France of violating human rights conventions.
On Monday, scores of protesters demonstrated outside the French Embassy in Beirut over a delay by Paris in releasing Abdallah, who was granted parole on a life sentence handed down in 1987.
A French court granted Abdallah parole in November on condition he be deported ,but the interior ministry has yet to issue the deportation order.
The court postponed its decision on his release until January 28.
The supporters of Abdallah fear that the postponement is a first step to renew his detention.
20 January 2013, 11:48
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Another Hizbollah trick...! With the UN peacekeepers, with the STL investigators, etc...always the busload of widows, children, pilgrims, on stand-by, ready to answer the paid duty-call !!
20 January 2013, 12:44
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The man is still jailed yet he causes troubles. I hope Lebanon will prevent him from resuming his terrorist activities....
20 January 2013, 13:04
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Bunch of thugs. They should be jailed. if u have eggs and tomatoes give them to syrian refugees instead of destroying yet more our country's image for a criminal.
20 January 2013, 14:40
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The article Fails to mention, AGAIN that the protesters claim that the French Government is doing the US's bid concerning Georges.
20 January 2013, 14:42
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Instead of letting him free the french government should deport him to the USA.
20 January 2013, 14:47
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Send him to Gaza. Not welcome here enough of these useful idiots carrying the water of the Jihadist.
20 January 2013, 17:21
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C'est bien dommage que la peine de mort aie été supprimée en France...
21 January 2013, 11:01
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Have to agree with FT there needs to be some form of justice and jurisprudence served here. In any civilized society one cannot simply throw stones at the embassies to get them to release tried and imprisoned persons?!! Void of the legal process then any nation doing this is living under the law of the Jungle. God needs to give us his undivided attention if were to survive past the 12th century!
21 January 2013, 14:00
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These people have the right to protest, but the right they don't have is to behave so appallingly. Throwing anything on a foreign embassy is a violation and contrary to any law, such a behavior only hurts those who are protesting in the first instance and the people of Lebanon in the larger picture. As I saw the images unfold on TV I got truly dismayed and appalled to say the least, this is not the way to do things, a definite NO to this.
