Georges Tron, a junior minister in Sarkozy's government who has been accused of sexual harrassment by two women, resigned on Sunday. Tron has called the accusations "incredible."
French prosecutors have opened an inquiry into the accusations.
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Law enforcement agencies have killed an Islam[ic] convert believed responsible for the twin bombings of police buildings in Volgograd last month, and detained four alleged accomplices, the Investigative Committee said Monday.
The Volgograd blasts, which injured no one on April 26, were practice runs for attacks planned for the Victory Day holiday, May 9, in Astrakhan, 380 kilometers away, investigators said.
Few details of the killing and arrests were released. Did they use a stutter gun? Continued on Page 47
[Iran Press TV] Spaniards continue protests against the government's austerity measures and growing unemployment rate despite heavy police presence.
Violent festivities erupted on Friday as anti-government protesters had their sit-in in the Catalunya square in Barcelona, Spain.
The number of injured during the festivities reached over 120 as coppers swiped at protesters with batons, dragged them on the ground and even fired rubber bullets at them, aiming to disperse demonstrators and dismantle the camp they had set up in the square.
"As soon as police entered Catalunya square, they used excessive force to clear a makeshift camp set up there," Jordi Relano, a protester in Barcelona, told a Press TV correspondent on Friday.
He also denied that the protesters did anything to provoke police forces.
"Police entered the square only to stop our movement," he said.
"What police did today was simply meant to break up our gatherings. They just entered the square and started beating us," Hector Huerga, another protester, told our correspondent.
Police said they had to clear the square for the celebrations that will spark if Barcelona beats Manchester United in the UEFA Champions League's final match on Saturday.
This is while activists say cleaning the square was only a pretext to violate their democratic rights and have vowed to come back.
"They are making us leave because of the match but we will come back again here or somewhere else because our match is more important," 42-year-old Albert Bonet, who took part in the protest, said.
Similar festivities were also erupted in the northeastern city of Lerida.
Since mid-May, Spain has been witnessing nationwide demonstrations against the government's austerity measures and economic policies.
The protesters form part of the M-15 movement, which brought thousands of people to the streets ahead of Sunday's local and regional elections.
Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero's ruling Socialist Party suffered heavy losses in the elections.
Massive protests sparked across Spain after the government of Zapatero introduced a slew of drastic austerity measures, including the cutting of civil servant wages, as part of its plan to curb the budget deficit from 11 percent a year earlier to within three percent of the GDP by 2013.
Spain has the highest jobless rate in the eurozone with 21.3 percent and is saddled with a record 4.9 million people unemployed.
Although Spain has so far managed to stave off a bailout, economists expect that the eurozone's fourth largest economy will inevitably follow Portugal, Ireland and Greece, and will be forced to accept a financial rescue package.
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Can't blame them. The socialists promised them paradise and then didn't deliver. In fact they made it a lot worse. We're familiar with that here in the U.S.A.
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"Manchester United?" Maybe the police could back off and let the British soccer fans do the clearing for them.
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Georges Tron, a junior minister in Sarkozy's government who has been accused of sexual harrassment by two women, resigned on Sunday. Tron has called the accusations "incredible."
