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"Mr President, I shall speak about the same matter that was addressed just now by our fellow Member, Mr Sifunakis, but I shall do so a slightly different way. We obviously do not have the same view on the events taking place in France, but the extraordinary thing is that it is not possible to talk about them in this Parliament. If these events were taking place in Latin America, Africa or Asia, resolutions would be drafted in their regard. Since these events began, 9 000 fires have been started intentionally: buses and bus depots, schools, crèches, nursery schools, libraries, sports centres, youth clubs, health centres, social centres and even churches are all being set alight. Police officers are being attacked, but so too are the fire fighters who risk their lives, bus drivers, underground train drivers, not to mention the two innocent lives that have been lost, respectable French citizens who were lynched in front of their families. Meanwhile, the European Parliament is refusing to let us talk about the matter.
Such a ‘rule of silence’ is unprecedented in an assembly calling itself a Parliamentary Assembly and in which it is possible for points of view, although quite different and quite conflicting, freely to be expressed, as they are expressed on the subject of other countries throughout the world."@en1
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