ARMENIAN GAY AND LESBIAN ASSOCIATION MEMBERS ASSAULTED IN PARIS
Today, Azerbaijan
Nov 2 2006
Two members of France-based Armenian Gay and Lesbian Association
were injured in an action organized in Paris by Arabian adults from
North Africa.
Monthly Nouvelles d'Armenie magazine editor-in-chief Ara Toranyan
pledged to appeal to French law enforcement bodies, APA bureau reports.
Armenian Gay and Lesbian Association chairman Misha Merujan requested
French Interior Minister Nikola Sarkozi to punish the public order
breakers.
He, expressing great gratitude to Nikola Sarkozi for the bill making
genocide denial a crime, supported the minister's attitude to North
African immigrants in the appeal. He also said that the association
will support Nikola Sarkozi in the presidential election.
Armenian-origin French politicker Patrik Davachiyan politicized the
assault on gays, saying the rioters chose Christianity as a target
and Turks has a "hand" in this process.
URL: http://www.today.az/news/society/32133.html
Today, Azerbaijan
Nov 2 2006
Two members of France-based Armenian Gay and Lesbian Association
were injured in an action organized in Paris by Arabian adults from
North Africa.
Monthly Nouvelles d'Armenie magazine editor-in-chief Ara Toranyan
pledged to appeal to French law enforcement bodies, APA bureau reports.
Armenian Gay and Lesbian Association chairman Misha Merujan requested
French Interior Minister Nikola Sarkozi to punish the public order
breakers.
He, expressing great gratitude to Nikola Sarkozi for the bill making
genocide denial a crime, supported the minister's attitude to North
African immigrants in the appeal. He also said that the association
will support Nikola Sarkozi in the presidential election.
Armenian-origin French politicker Patrik Davachiyan politicized the
assault on gays, saying the rioters chose Christianity as a target
and Turks has a "hand" in this process.
URL: http://www.today.az/news/society/32133.html