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WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 18, 2009 15
UNITED KINGDOM
Police fire tear gas at protesters who set fire to roadblocks
Plane staff
NEWS IN
bailed in
BRIEF
drugs case
Looters fight back Politician’s
British customs officials said Police fired tear gas at pro- for a monthly $260 increase nude pics
yesterday they had released testers who set fire to road- for low-wage earners.
the crew of a South African blocks as gangs looted shops In Paris, President Nicolas MALAYSIA: A prominent
Airways plane on bail, after on the French Caribbean Sarkozy said he would meet opposition politician tearfully
arresting them and seizing island of Guadeloupe which with elected officials from offered her resignation
cocaine worth $350,000 on a has been crippled by a four Guadeloupe and other over- yesterday after photos of
flight from Johannesburg. week old general strike. seas territories to take stock of her in the nude were
The 15-person crew were Young protesters set fire to the situation. circulated to the media.
detained on Monday evening a dozen makeshift road- Police detained dozens of Elizabeth Wong, one of
after 5kg of cocaine was seized blocks erected around the protesters in Guadeloupe on Malaysia’s top human
- the second time in four weeks capital Pointe-a-Pitre late on Monday after they began put- rights activists, blamed
that one of the airline’s flight Monday and hurled rocks at ting up barricades. Prime government “gutter
crews has been detained fol- police who tried to break up Minister Francois Fillon said politics” for the release of
lowing the discovery of drugs the barricades. roadblocks were not “part of the images, which
coming into Heathrow. Gangs smashed storefront the legal means of expression” reportedly show her
The nine men and six windows, looted shops, of protest. sleeping in her bedroom.
women were released later on torched cars and set fire to a Unions launched a strike Newspaper reports have
Monday evening after having nautical equipment store and on the neighbouring island speculated that the images
been interviewed by customs garbage bins. of Martinique on February 5 may have been taken by a
investigators, and told to At one roadblock on the out- also to press for higher former boyfriend.
return to Heathrow Police skirts of the capital, police used salaries and measures to “I wish to state that I am
Station in April, said a cus- tear gas and stun grenades to bring down the prices of not ashamed of my
toms spokesman. disperse the crowd. basic goods. sexuality as a woman and
Another spokesman had said The French overseas territory Island residents rely almost a single person. I have
they were arrested after UK has been sliding deeper into exclusively on imports sold in broken no laws. I stand by
Border Agency officers discov- turmoil since the Collective French-owned supermarkets the fundamental principle
ered the drugs in an item of Against Exploitation (LKP), a at significantly higher prices in a democracy that
baggage that had arrived on a coalition of unions and leftist than in France. everyone has a right to
South African Airways flight groups launched the strike on Most shops, cafes, banks, privacy,” she said.
from Johannesburg. January 20. schools and government The photos, which are
He said it was “very, very The LKP said it planned to offices have been shut in circulating via mobile
unusual” for two separate step up protests this week Guadeloupe and Martinique phones, have not yet been
crews to be arrested in such after the government refused and the strike has also hit the published in the media.
similar circumstances. to bow to its central demand key tourism industry. VIOLENCE ERUPTS: Youngsters have smashed store windows
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