Posted on 11/13/2006 5:44:19 PM PST by WmShirerAdmirer
Philadelphia sues Paris over Mumia Abu Jamal PARIS, Nov 11, 2006 (AFP) - City authorities in Philadelphia are suing their counterparts in Paris and its suburb of Saint Denis for honouring a US prisoner on death row for the murder of a policeman he denies committing, a lawyer said Saturday.
Gilbert Collard, representing the US city, said complaints alleging "apology for crime" had been officially lodged with prosecutors in the French capital and the adjoining region of Seine-Saint-Denis.
In October 2003 Paris awarded Mumia Abu Jamal honorary citizenship at a ceremony attended by the head of his support committee, black US activist Angela Davis, in a symbolic gesture against the death penalty.
In April this year Saint Denis named a street after Jamal, 52, formerly known as Wesley Cook, a member of the Black Panther movement, who was sentenced to death in 1982 for the murder of policeman Daniel Faulkner in Philadelphia.
His supporters, who allege the trial was a travesty of justice, managed to prevent his execution in 1995 and again in 1999, when a hired killer, Arnold Beverley, confessed to have shot Faulkner in a mafia hit.
The death sentence but not the conviction was overturned in 2001, but both sides are appealing the decision.
Collard said officials from Philadelphia would be coming to Paris within the next two weeks to make their views known. He said the aim of the lawsuit was not to damage any campaign against the death penalty, which he himself opposed, but the US city considered the honours bestowed on Abu Jamal abnormal.
Copyright AFP
Check out how France is going to tax her people to death.
Headlines: France to fight industrial polluters with coal tax
The government promises to create a domestic coal tax and push with European partners for a carbon tax on goods from countries that ignore the Kyoto Protocol.
France mulls London-style vehicle tax for cities
France may follow London's lead by slapping a tax on vehicles entering Paris and other major cities to cut pollution and traffic jams.
They are also banning smoking in all public places this month
France let that murderer Ira Einhorn live there for years too. Let the Muzzies have them!
It never ceases to amaze me how anyone can honestly view Mumia Abu Jamal as anything but a unremorseful, cold-blooded cop killer. Every conspiracy theory about him being wrongfully convicted or otherwise "set up" has been debunked by the facts. He's no more innocent than "Tookie" Williams was.
Justice for Daniel Faulkner, not his killer!
Yeah I saw a TV show on that dirtbag. What that family went through to get that sleaze extradited was just unbeleivable. What blows my mind was the cops found the body of Holly Maddux in his own apartment while he was standing right there! never denying he killed her, and this effin` judge gave him bail!
F*ck the French.
If I remember correctly, 4 seperate witnesses saw him shoot Danny Faulkner, including a taxi driver who saw the whole thing from beginning to end, and all testified to that fact identifying Mumia as the shooter. Yet you get people like MASH actor Mike Farrell bloviating about Mumia (formerly known as Wesley Cook) not having a fair trial (most likely because he was found guilty), because as we all know, actors are experts above anyone in all fields of politics and law.
One thing I always wanted to ask all these punks who say he didn`t get a fair trial is; If he was found innocent, would you still be demanding he get a fair trial? It proves they are all full of it.
And guess who Einhorn's lawyer was that got him bailed out.
ARLEN SPECTER, one of the biggest RINOS in the Senate!
I believe his lawyer was Arlin Specter.
I read the title and thought Paris Hilton was being sued.
Which is clearly illegal under WTO treaties. I assume the EU is party to the WTO, irrespective of their political America bashing.
Yup, you've got it right, I think. And there is also the matter of Mumia's spontaneous confession in front of a hosptial security guard, which was properly reported to her supervisor and later used as evidence.
Everything the "Free Mumia" crowd has brought up as "proof" of his innocence has been debunked over and over. The man is guilty, and should rot in jail for the rest of his life (since the death penalty sentence was overturned already).
It's more of a life than officer Faulkner will ever get to have...
Yep, although I really think his closest associates don't care about the truth. They're so driven by hatred of the U.S. and/or the police (or both, in Angela Davis' case), nothing will ever convince them otherwise.
Beverley had nothing to do with jamal's holding justice at bay. It was the PA courts. Only 3 killers have been executed in PA since they reinstituted the death penalty. They have all been white.
Yet another reason I do not allow my companies to do any business at all with France!!
His role helped his Senate run.
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