Olmert, Francia y los estudiantes

Paris, 22 octobre 2007

GENERATION PALESTINE –"OLMERT GO HOME" ACTION

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Today at 1pm, a group of young activists from France, Switzerland and Belgium belonging to the association Generation Palestine have decided to demonstrate their opposition to the warm welcome of war criminal / prime minister Ehud Olmert by right wing French president Nicolas Sarkozy.

They unfurled a huge Palestinian flag from the "Arc de Triomphe", in the "Champs Elysées", at the precise moment when Olmert was having lunch with Nicolas Sarkozy. Their message was recorded in an interview by french journalists from the AFP.

Their spokesperson said : "We want to tell Olmert that he will not be welcome in our country until he withdraws his army from the Palestinian occupied territories, releases the siege imposed on the Gaza strip and is judged for his war crimes in Palestine and Lebanon..."

"We want to tell Nicolas sarkozy that he shouldn't welcome Olmert before Israel obeys international law, and that he should stop Europe's and France's cooperation with Israel, especially their military cooperation..."

Generation Palestine is a youth organization with branches in France, Belgium, Switzerland and Spain. It was founded in october 2006 after a series of summer camps organized in Palestine with the GUPS (General Union of Palestine Students).