Saturday, February 12, 2011

Paris: Tunisian revolution figure Bouazizi to be memorialized

Paris: Tunisian revolution figure Bouazizi to be memorialized

Via M&C:

City councillors in the French capital Paris on Tuesday unanimously adopted a proposal to name a street, square or other site after Mohammed Bouazizi, the Tunisian vegetable vendor whose protest suicide sparked that country's Jasmine Revolution.

The proposal had been brought forward by Tunisian-born Mayor Bertrand Delanoe.

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