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Another woman sets herself on fire over Paris raids on Iran group
Paris, June 18: A second woman set herself on fire in Paris today to protest at a major French crackdown on the leading Iranian armed opposition group, the People`s Mujahedeen, police said.
Paris, June 18: A second woman set herself on fire in Paris today to protest at a major French crackdown on the leading Iranian armed opposition group, the People's Mujahedeen, police said.
Police said the woman, described as in her 30s, had suffered "light burns". A protestor at the scene -- near the offices of the French Domestic Intelligence Service (DST) -- however earlier said she had been "seriously burned".
Police said when she set herself alight, she was outside the perimeter of demonstrators who were staging a protest near the DST offices here, closely watched by French police.
Earlier, an Iranian woman in her 40s -- identified as Arzieh Babakhani -- was taken to hospital and listed in serious condition with severe burns to the face and chest after spraying herself with petrol and igniting it, firefighters said. Other Iranians here said she was a political refugee living in Paris.
About 50 protestors were gathered near the DST offices in Paris, where investigators were questioning 26 suspects still in detention, of the more than 150 detained in yesterday's raids on the exiled Iranian group.
The flag-waving demonstrators demanded that the group's figurehead Maryam Rajavi be released, some of them threatening to commit suicide unless French authorities let her go.
Bureau Report
Police said when she set herself alight, she was outside the perimeter of demonstrators who were staging a protest near the DST offices here, closely watched by French police.
Earlier, an Iranian woman in her 40s -- identified as Arzieh Babakhani -- was taken to hospital and listed in serious condition with severe burns to the face and chest after spraying herself with petrol and igniting it, firefighters said. Other Iranians here said she was a political refugee living in Paris.
About 50 protestors were gathered near the DST offices in Paris, where investigators were questioning 26 suspects still in detention, of the more than 150 detained in yesterday's raids on the exiled Iranian group.
The flag-waving demonstrators demanded that the group's figurehead Maryam Rajavi be released, some of them threatening to commit suicide unless French authorities let her go.
Bureau Report