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Malian singer Rokia Traoré, arrested on March 10 (when she got off a plane at Roissy-Charles de Gaulle airport) and imprisoned in France, announced that she has started a hunger strike. The artist, in a letter, denounces the decision of the Brussels court which granted sole custody of their daughter to his ex Belgian companion.
Pending the scheduled hearing in Paris this Wednesday, March 18, to decide whether or not to extradite him to Belgium, Rokia Traoré is on strike. ” I started a hunger strike on Tuesday 10th March 2020 from 6.30 am so that I can be granted a fair trial in Belgium and so that the European arrest warrant is not unfairly applied “, She wrote on her page Facebook.
Rokia, who has filed a complaint against her ex-boyfriend for sexual touching of her young daughter in France and Mali, hopes that justice will give her custody of the child. In the meantime, she can comfort herself with the support and mobilization of Internet users on social networks since her arrest.
R. J.
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