The belfry of Arras shouting "Freedom for Abdallah!"

This Saturday, November 10, 2012, at the initiative of "peuple des Corons”, the committee "bassin minier" for the support of Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, the belfry of Arras (Pas-de-Calais) was peacefully occupied for an hour by supporters of the immediate release of Georges Ibrahim Abdallah.

An intervention in the form of "foot nose" to the “bourgeoisie” which in the Middle Ages had made this building a symbol of emancipation from the shackles of feudalism.

And which today indulges the submission to the pressure from the United States and “Israel” which pressures manifest since 28 years, designed to prevent the release of the oldest political prisoner in the hexagone (France). The " bourgeoisie justice is acting like the "whore of America", as aptly pointed Jacques Verges, counsel for the communist and anti-imperialist militant incarcerated in Lannemezan, the Pyrenees.

In the city that saw the birth of the Incorruptible Maximilien Robespierre, the message displayed at the top of the belfry and the slogans were shouted at the time of the weekly market, it had only more sense ...