Protesters Pelt French Embassy with Tomatoes to Demand Georges Abdallah's Release
Protesters demanding the release of Georges Ibrahim Abdallah from jail in France staged a demonstration in front of the French Embassy on Sunday.
The protesters angrily pelted tomatoes and eggs at the embassy, reported LBCI television.
It added that the gatherers stressed that they will continue their “peaceful and democratic” actions against French interests in Lebanon until Abdallah's release.
These include banks, companies, and institutes.
They added that their actions will remain peaceful and they will not storm any of the establishments, said LBCI.
For his part, Abdallah urged in a recording his supporters to maintain their actions until his release, it reported.
Furthermore, the supporters had hoped that the Lebanese government would intensify its contacts with French authorities to ensure Abdallah's release.
On Saturday, several protesters demonstrated the French United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon peacekeepers in the southern village of Deir Kifa over the ongoing detention of Lebanese leftist militant Georges Abdallah.
They accused France of violating human rights conventions.
On Monday, scores of protesters demonstrated outside the French Embassy in Beirut over a delay by Paris in releasing Abdallah, who was granted parole on a life sentence handed down in 1987.
A French court granted Abdallah parole in November on condition he be deported ,but the interior ministry has yet to issue the deportation order.
The court postponed its decision on his release until January 28.
The supporters of Abdallah fear that the postponement is a first step to renew his detention.
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the filthy zionist slime trash and filth wants patriotic lebanese to stay in jail forever and other stupidities
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The man is still jailed yet he causes troubles. I hope Lebanon will prevent him from resuming his terrorist activities....
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onyol the filthy zionist scum can call patriotic lebanese "terrorist"
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Bunch of thugs. They should be jailed. if u have eggs and tomatoes give them to syrian refugees instead of destroying yet more our country's image for a criminal.
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only the filthy zionist scum can call patriotic lebanese "criminal"
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bunch of criminals in support of an other criminal
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The article Fails to mention, AGAIN that the protesters claim that the French Government is doing the US's bid concerning Georges.
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+ I am totally against any harm or damage to the French embassy!
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Instead of letting him free the french government should deport him to the USA.
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the filthy zionist scum would like to see patriotic lebanese in guantanamo
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Send him to Gaza. Not welcome here enough of these useful idiots carrying the water of the Jihadist.
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the filthy zionist scum trash worm would like patriotic lebanese to be sent to ghaza
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the filthy zionist think is stuck in 12th century.
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of course it is
Another Hizbollah trick...! With the UN peacekeepers, with the STL investigators, etc...always the busload of widows, children, pilgrims, on stand-by, ready to answer the paid duty-call !!