French Senator Writes to Minister of Internal Affairs to Express his Concern About the Mistreatment of Falun Gong Practitioners by the French Police

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French Senator Writes to Minister of Internal Affairs to Express his Concern About the Mistreatment of Falun Gong Practitioners by the French Police

May 30, 2004

(Clearwisdom.net)

Bernard Joly
MP for Haute-Saone,
Secretary of the Senate House
Secretary of Economic Affairs and Planning
Chairman of the National Tourism Board
Vice-Chairman of the Forest Community
General Secretary of the Weire Radical Party
Paris, March 31st 2004

Mr Minister,

Please allow me to respond to a letter to me by a French citizen of a Chinese ethnic group. She and her friends from Taiwan were detained and searched on the 26th of January during the Chinese President Hu Jintao's visit.

The uniformed police took these people to the Paris fourth police station for an identity and security check when they were about to go into the metro station near the city government square. This lady pointed out that the search was carried out in a very rude manner and that they did not do anything to justify this action. She thinks that they were arrested simply because they were wearing yellow scarves with Falun Gong symbols.

I will be very pleased if you can give me a clear explanation of this incident.

Thank you, Mr Minister. Please accept my highest respect.

Warmly