US EditionIn Paris, a Bookshop Searched After Selling a Controversial Children's Book on Palestine
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This summer, the feminist bookshop Violette and co, in the 11th arrondissement of Paris, was found in the heart of a polemic after putting in display a controversial coloring book. On January 7, it was searched by the police. An investigation was opened by the paq...
Five police officers, together with a representative of the Paris Public Prosecutor’s Office, have registered a bookshop in the French capital with the aim of seizing a children’s book about the history of Palestine. According to reports made this Friday by the officials of the premises, located in Paris’ 11th district, the authorities were seeking on 7 January to seize all copies of From the River to the Sea: a livre de coloriage’ (from the riv…
If the police left empty-handed, the works having been sold, the manager was summoned to the police station on 22 January as part of a preliminary investigation. The book in question is entitled "From the River to the Sea", a formula interpreted by some as a desire to eradicate the Hebrew state, by others as a pacifist support to the Palestinian cause.
Violette and Co, a feminist and LGBT+ bookshop, was searched for selling the book "From the River to the Sea".
Le Journal des Luttes du 16 janvier 2026, presented by Cyril Lemba
The Paris Public Prosecutor's Office confirmed the Wednesday raid of the feminist and lesbian shop to seize "prohibited items for sale". Violette and Co, who was no longer selling the book "Fr...
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