“Recently, in Corsica, 700 people founded a new movement called ‘Nazione’, uniting the entities and activists struggling for independence and reaffirming their commitment to fighting the French colonial domination,” the executive director of the Baku Initiative Group (BIG), Abbas Abbasov, said in his speech about Corsica, Report informs.
According to him, the French government began to persecute the Nazione young activists only two days after this movement’s establishment: “Two young Nazione activists were arrested and taken first to the Borgu military camp and from there to Paris as terrorists to the orders of the National Anti-Terror Prosecution Office of France. The French Police raided the young activists’ houses, broke their doors with explosive charges, treated the fathers violently before their children, ransacked the houses, and deliberately smashed the children’s toys, again, right before their eyes.”
“According to the Amnesty International report on France in 2022, racial and religious discrimination persisted in France, especially targeting Muslim individuals and associations. Excessive use of force by police against human rights defenders continued without accountability,” Abbasov said.
The executive director of the Baku Initiative Group also emphasized that France does not respect international law. A country where prisons are full of political prisoners cannot be a country with human rights.
