Paris: Police attacks 150 sympathisers and revolutionary activists o

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September 18, 1997

Paris: Police attacks 150 sympathisers and revolutionary activists,
originating from Turkey

Last Tuesday night, the French police launched a large wave of arrests
against friends and sympathisers of the revolutionary front in Turkey.
The police searched dozens of houses and locked up our comrades in
police stations, without giving any reason. What was the reason for
one of the largest searches in recent years? Where they searching drug
dealers or a serial killer? Maybe somebody who smuggles people? Or
were they trying to dismantle a prostitution ring? Nothing of the
kind. The French police just wanted to silence the voices of
revolutionaries from Turkey. The only crime our comrades are guilty of
is being revolutionaries or supporters of revolutionaries. Looking at
the crimes which are committed by French policemen and their bosses,
we ask ourselves: what interests do they have in these attacks? What
were they looking for? Why are they  collaborating with the fascist
regime in our country, using their methods?

We demand the immediate release of our comrades and an end to the
arbitrary punishments. Our struggle will continue as long as fascism
rules in our country and there will always be sympathisers and
militants who support our struggle in the countries where our people
seek asylum. The French police would do better with occupying
themselves with the real criminals in France like drug dealers and
people who deal in human beings. 

We strongly condemn these arbitrary and despicable acts, perpetrated
by the French police and we appeal on the democratic and progressive
public opinion to express its protest. 

-- 
Devrimci Halk Kurtulus Cephesi (Revolutionary Peoples Liberation Front)
DHKC Informationbureau Amsterdam
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