French Police strip a female Mauritanian human rights lawyer Fatim Mbaye completely naked at Paris airport!

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French Police strip a female mauritanian humanrights lawyer Fatim Mbaye completely naked at Paris airport!
 
 The Paris airport has always been known for subjecting African immigrants to the most inhumane treatment one can ever imagine. This latest reaction from the very immigration at the Paris airport against a Mauritanian Human rights lawyer has gone way beyond the limit. Mbaye was on her way to the French capital when she was subjected to extreme searches by the airport police simply because they were on a routine exercise meant to identify and expel immigrants they suspect of wanting to escape into the city or country. What angered lawyer Fatim Mbaye is the way she was subjected to such a degrading and disrespectful search just because she was traveling to France. Later on she had access to the airwaves of Radio France International where she denounced the notorious French immigration police for handling her like a common criminal when In actual fact she is a professional who came to their country to serve a noble cause which Is defending human rights. RADDHO-an NGO based in Dakar Senegal West Africa which defends human rights never hesitated to pounce back! On 27 day of march 2008  RADDHO added its weight on this latest cry for justice where Fatim Mbaye’s being was subjected to humiliation and total disrespect. Along this very vein RADDHO called on the African Union, African governments and heads of state to step in and address suchs degrading acts from an unruly French immigration police. Which are always targeting African immigrants or travelers who in most cases are simply transiting via that unwelcoming airport!
According to the same source a similar incident took place some time ago where a young Congolese was arrested, the mouth taped and a hood placed over the person’s head on Air France Flight N: AF 896 destination Brazzaville. This unfortunate passenger was heard screaming for help because it was demeaning, painful and hard to endure. That was not only uncomfortable but risky because the person in question could have died before reaching his or her destination.
Comments and Analysis: After all why all those chains and hoods? Just because he or she was suspected of  having flouted immigration laws? What if the French police were able to  really establish facts? Then they might have taken the person a firing squad? I hope not! When one thinks about those who traverse the sea in search of greener pastures, it is obvious that was a chosen risk. However, where a passenger is a lawyer and! on an an official trip to and from Paris, its difficult to comprehend what was pushing the “Pin-headed” French immigration to handle  her like that? It was sheer arrogance, prejudice and  lack of respect to say the least. France has always been trying to reject possible “links” between it and its former colonies in Africa when it comes to attracting their people on its soil. Why ? It is anyone’s guess! The same Republic rushed to Africa seeking for help during the second world war. Many of our father or grand fathers perished in the jungles of Burma and other places in defense of the French tri-coloured flag. After all, as soon as the war ended the same French sent some fighters home, those they could not transport via sea because of physical disabilities were dumped at what we today know as the “Musee des invalids” in the middle of Paris. Not even many researches tend to know what caused this name: The museum of handicaps. Instead these people who have been used, abandoned and rejected  by the system that they rose to defend with pride, have been denied sympathy from home and from France. Lest we forget the story of the Senegalese “tirailleurs”- West African second world war soldiers the French colonial government denied their compensations and summarily killed them.Simply because they were on a peaceful demonstration asking to be compensated after the war?!!! The same France after the second world war2 decided to reserve the suburbs of Paris known as BARBEZ,18EME ARRONDISEMENT to the non French. These areas were used as slums where Algerians, Moroccans, Africans and Asians from places like Veitnam resided to feign for themselves. And these people were welcome as being part of a giant Francophonie? What an absurd historical invitation! Today those areas they called slums turned to perform so well that the economy of the city rides on the tax those boutique, restaurants and discotheques pay to them as taxes! This is the very reason why the same French immigration angered Malians they forcefully deported over a decade ago. The end result was not good. As soon as the Air France landed in Bamako and those immigrants were released to descend from the plane,they turned around beat up the crew uprooted valuable parts and throw them on the tarmac. This caused a serious tension between the French authorities and families of those immigrants who were legally based in France. France has to stop this attitude of “USE THEM AND REJECT THEM” The African Union has to step in and say something. Even the EU has already released a recent research it conducted accusing France of having the most rigid immigrations laws in place all over Europe or any country in the Western Hemisphere. Et Pourtant! France will always want UK,USA and Russia to see them as the GoD Father of Africa in the West? This is simply unbelievable. Even when giving scholarships France decides for African students to read teaching methods! Why? Because they force those students to go back home and teach the language. A language they truly believe is the vehicle of  the best of culture in the world?! Who says it is? For me Swahili sings sweeter songs in my ears than French does. I can speak French like most of  them the French but it still does not make me French! Have they ever tried speaking Wolof, Fulani or Bamabara like many of us do? Never! Even a they try the best part of that trial turns out to be a mockery! No wonder France used assimilation during the colonial days to blind-fold its colonies. Enough is enough France keep your visa and borders! Then do not send your Peugeots and gateaus to our markets period! This Africa of today is not the one you k new. This is an Africa of young intellectuals who do not recognize your patronage anymore. We  have an open door policy which sees not territory of colonial power. This generation sees liberty, freedom and respect. Stop the patronage France because there no one to be a patron over anymore!
 
Fatimata Mbaye, avocate mauritanienne accuse la police française de l'avoir « dénudée » L'avocate mauritanienne Fatimata Mbaye a publiquement accusé la police française de l'avoir « dédudée » et de lui avoir fait subir d'autres traitements « humiliants » et « dégradants » lors d'une interpellation à l'aéroport Roissy-Charles De Gaulle de Paris, a appris Ouestafnews de sources concordantes.
Par Ouestafnews « J'ai été fouillée au corps », a déclaré sur les ondes de Radio France Internationale l'avocate, par ailleurs militante des droits de l'homme dans son pays.
Affirmant n'avoir « jamais réllement su ce que fouiller au corps voulait dire » en dépit de sa longue carrière d'avocate, et ce jusqu' à ce jour du 11 mars où elle a été interpellée par la police française qui l'a « complètement déshabillée », elle a exprimé sa colère et son indignation sur les ondes de RFI le 27 mars à la faveur d'une émission interactive.
Selon l'avocate, qui est aussi vice-présidente de la Fédération internationale des droits de l'homme (FIDH), ce traitement dégradant et humiliant faisait suite à une affaire de « reconduite à la frontière », le terme pudique utilisée par les officiels français pour les expulsions forcés d'immigrés africains du territoire français.
Mme Mbaye affirme avoir été interpellée parce qu'elle s'est indignée, en même temps que d'autres passagers d'un vol Air France, des conditions inhumaines dans lesquelles un ressortissant mauritanien en cours d'expulsion était placé dans l'avion.
Depuis qu'elle a fait ce témoignage l'affaire, vieille déjà de deux semaines, commence à faire grand bruit dans les milieux des défenseurs de droits de l'homme.
Dans un communiqué daté de Lyon et transmis à Ouestafnews, la section « Diaspora » de la Rencontre Africaine pour la défense des droits de l'homme (Raddho) a exprimé dans la soirée du jeudi 27 mars « sa profonde indignation face aux actes ignobles qui tendent à humilier et portent une atteinte grave à son intimité et à sa dignité ».
La Raddho invite par ailleurs « l'Union africaine et les gouvernements et leaders africains à se saisir immédiatement de la question des migrations et à être plus sourcilleux sur la sécurité de leurs ressortissants expatriés ».
Dans un autre témoignage publié dans le magazine panafricain basé à Paris, Jeune Afrique daté du 16 au 22 mars, le journaliste François Soudan rapporte une scène similaire à celle racontée par Fatimata Mbaye.
L'article intitulé Vol AF 896 (à destination de Brazzaville) raconte le calvaire d'un des ces « expulsés », un jeune congolais d'une trentaine d'années installé au fond de la cabine « jambes et poignets sanglés, un masque noué sur la bouche » et qui criait « au secours! je vais mourir !»