16, February 2020
France Political Earthquake: Russian artist who released Macron ally sex tape arrested 0
A Russian dissident artist who published screenshots of sexual images that forced President Emmanuel Macron’s candidate for Paris City Hall to pull out of the race was arrested in the French capital on Saturday, the prosecutor’s office said.
Benjamin Griveaux, one of Macron’s closest lieutenants, abandoned his bid to become mayor of Paris on Friday after it was alleged he sent sexual images of his genitals to a woman who is not his wife. Griveaux has not disputed that he sent the messages.
Pyotr Pavlensky, who has lived in exile in France, said he had posted the sex video to expose Griveaux’s « hypocrisy ».
The Russian artist is best known for works of performance art including nailing his scrotum to the ground in Moscow’s Red Square and setting fire to a door at the headquarters of Russia’s state security agency or the Bank of France.
Complaint for privacy violation
The prosecutor’s office said Pavlensky had been arrested and held for questioning at a police station in central Paris in connection with another case about violence perpetrated on New Year’s Eve.
It added that Griveaux had filed a complaint on Saturday afternoon for privacy violation and that an investigation had been opened.
Under French law, so-called « revenge porn », or the publishing of pornographic material without a person’s content, can be punished by up to two years in prison and a 60,000-euro ($65,000) fine.
Officials at Macron’s party on Saturday were still discussing who should replace Griveaux and run under the party’s banner in next month’s mayoral elections, and expected to have a name early next week, the party said in a statement.
(REUTERS)
16, February 2020
French Cameroun unfathomable cruelty: President Biya’s game sees Cameroon gov’t soldiers targeting different body parts on Amba women and children 0
The unborn children of Southern Cameroons women are the targets of a sickening war declared against the English speaking community by the 87 year old president Paul Biya. Our chief intelligence officer in Bamenda reported that Cameroon government army soldiers are now being promoted to senior ranks after leading operations in the crisis hit South West and North West.
Cameroon Intelligence Report has witnessed evidence of Cameroon government troops using civilians as target practice and recently shooting pregnant women in the stomach, killing their unborn babies.
Horrifying: This image shows a young mother and her child killed in Ngarbuh with bullets lodged in their brains
Several Southern Cameroonians who have fled the territory have told of the horrors suffered by civilians caught in the French Cameroun genocidal campaign, describing it as hell beyond hell. Many women and children in both the North West and South West regions have been killed by Cameroon government soldiers and their wounds followed disturbing patterns.
Medics at the Bamenda Regional Hospital contacted by Cameroon Intelligence Report revealed that some of the women and children receiving treatment at the facility were shot to the groin, the left chest and neck. A physician who spoke to us but sued for anonymity said in his 12 years volunteering in the Congo, this is the first time he had witnessed pregnant women being targeted.
He described the 4 women patients from Ngarbuh who were brought to Bamenda with support from the Roman Catholic Church saying that the women were all shot through the uterus.
The civil war in Southern Cameroons is showing no evidence of slowing down as Cameroon government army soldiers are clashing with Ambazonia Restoration Forces. Recent clashes saw the killing of dozens in Muyuka and Bui County, including one of Southern Cameroons top self defense officers, General Cha Cha.
His death, celebrated by the Biya Francophone Beti Ewondo regime, marked a significant setback for Southern Cameroons bid to gain complete independence from French Cameroun.
The level of barbarism being perpetuated by Mr Biya’s military and his government militias as they pursue their genocidal war and scorch earth policy to completely annihilate the Southern Cameroons (Ambazonia) is alarming. So far, as a result of the on-going genocide in the Southern Cameroons (Ambazonia), an estimated 20,000 people have been killed, over 280 towns and villages have been burnt down, over 120,000 people are seeking refuge in Nigeria and further afield, over 1 million people are internally displaced or living in bushes and over 3,000 persons incarcerated in prisons and detention facilities.
It is also reported that over 4.5. Million people are at risk of famine. One thing we know for sure is that Mr Biya and his military and private militia will be held accountable for these crimes. While not exonerating Ambazonian self-defense forces, we also know that Mr Biya’s government is doing everything through its private militia (popularly known as Atanga Nji Boys) to commit atrocities and link them to self-defense forces, so as to evoke international sympathy. Only an independent fact-finding mission can establish the facts and thus far, Mr. Biya’s government has resisted all requests by independent humanitarian organizations to visit Southern Cameroons and establish the facts.
International efforts are growing to convene peace talks but French government support for the regime in Yaounde is preventing any rare agreement among global powers.
By Soter Tarh Agbaw-Ebai