French travellers cut road and rail links near Grenoble to demand prison release for funeral

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French travellers cut road and rail links near Grenoble to demand prison release for funeral



MOIRAN: -- A group of around 30 travellers raided a scrapyard and blocked a road in the French alps in Moirans near Grenoble on Tuesday, setting the wrecks alight, to demand the authorities release a 17-year-old and his cousin from a nearby prison to attend the funeral of his brother.

He had died at the weekend when a stolen car with his brother driving and two other passengers on board crashed while fleeing a burglary.

At the same time a riot broke out in the prison in Aiton where the men were detained, both protests coming after the request to attend the funeral was turned down.

Both protests have now been ended by the police, but not before railway traffic on the Grenoble line was cut.

In August another group of travellers tried a similar tactic on the motorway at Roye near Paris for the same reasons. To ease the pressure on returning summer holidaymakers the authorities gave in to their demands.

Not this time. French Prime Minister Manuel Walls has called for “republican order” to be respected.


-- (c) Copyright Euronews 2015-10-21

[Steely Dan]

My heart bleeds, now round the trash up so they can all have a reunion in prison.

[Seastallion]

Sounds like a really charming extended family....And for once I have to agree with Steely...lock 'em all up.

So is "traveler" the PC word for gypsy?

[facthailand]

"Travellers" Does this mean Romany (Gypsies)?

[godden]

All nice people then, give them what ever they want.

[Baerboxer]

"Travellers" Does this mean Romany (Gypsies)?

Yep - a polite pc word rather than gypoes or pikeys.

[cooked]

 

"Travellers" Does this mean Romany (Gypsies)?

Yep - a polite pc word rather than gypoes or pikeys.

 

It probably means Rumanian gypsies.

[TimmyT]

so a culprit, whose brother died escaping сrime scene dares not to ask for a mercy but angrily requires to be temporarily released, and his accomplices block the road to blackmail authorities?

why nobody just tell him:

come on, it was a fault of you and your brother! now face damned consequences, mother*ucker!

I am waiting for a moment when robbers will not threatened with a pistol to get cash but just say: "I am poor so you owe me. pass me your wallet."

PS travelers means gypsies? now it explains everything!

oh my God, this is what political correctness made of France!

whores should be called "free women"

disabled - people accessibility features

retarded - mentally challenged

or my God - or my goodness

Negroids - Afro-african, people of color

gypsies - travelers (!!!)

race and nationality should not be mentioned in any case....

how did you Europeans brought your countries to such insanity?! how?

Edited October 21, 2015 by TimmyT