Roussillon, France (by Nicolas)
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An Iranian man in Quebec says he was racially profiled by police when they conducted a “routine stop,” which he says led to over $1,100 in ticket fines for providing his insurance papers “too late,” possessing two packs contraband cigarettes and obstructing a peace officer.
Iman Niknam held a press conference on Wednesday alongside the Red Coalition, an anti-police profiling organization, detailing the “gross incompetence and troubling unprofessionalism” by Roussillon Police when the incident occurred back on July 8.
Niknam, a renovation contractor, says he was heading to meet a client at around 8 a.m. when he was pulled over for what the officers called a “routine stop” in Sainte-Catherine, Que., on Montreal’s south shore.
Once stopped, he says he asked one of the two officers why they had done a U-turn to pull him over.
According to Niknam, the officer replied “are you smoking Indian cigarettes? I can give you a ticket for that if you want to be rude.” [...]
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Note from the poster @el-shab-hussein: Reminder that in Canada police officers cannot legally search your vehicle unless they have a judge-issued warrant, unless you give them permission, unless you've been arrested while traveling in your vehicle, or unless you are carrying narcotics. These police officers have committed a crime.
Tagging: @politicsofcanada, @vague-humanoid
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Port-Barcarès, les Totems et la résidence "la Sardane"
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THYME AND ROSEMARY CROSS
''On the morning of Saint-Jean, the young girls of Roussillon place bouquets gathered the day before in the countryside on a cross at the doors and windows of their house, to prevent entry to the bad fairies.
This custom has a legendary origin: a young girl, in love with a handsome mountaineer whom she was to marry, put on her door, without thinking about it, two bouquets of thyme and rosemary forming a cross.
When her fiancé came, he dared not enter, pretending that the bouquet was in the shape of an asp.
- It is not an asp, replied the beauty, but a cross; bad people alone are afraid of the cross.
- Well! I'll admit it to you, I'm the Devil who came to get your soul and who would have achieved his ends without this cursed bouquet.''
Claudes Seignolles • Gospels of the Devil (the Devil in man)
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Le Pont du Diable
Olargues, Languedoc-Roussillon, France
Taken on May 16, 2010
Photographer: Paul Atkinson
Source: Flickr
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Cabestany, agglomération de Perpignan.
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Photo originale par Steph-Photo
Une adresse difficile à trouver ...
A Roussillon.
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