Issue of Key Bay ship: Sahrawis demonstrate in Fecamp (France)

Paris, January 21, 2017 (SPS) -  About forty Sahrawi people, supported by French activists, held a demonstration Friday afternoon in Fecamp (Seine Maritime department, Normandie region) to denounce the illegal shipment of marine oil from the occupied city of El Aaiun, said Saturday a Sahrawi source.

The demonstration, in response to the call of the Committee of twinning and international exchanges of Gonfreville and  Orcher, should coincide with the  docking of Key Bay ship carrying marine oil from Western Sahara, occupied by Morocco, to the company Olvea.

The Court of Justice of the European Union, in its decision of 21 December 2016, prohibited the import of products from the illegal exploitation of Western Sahara’s natural resources.

The Sahrawi demonstrators, living in France and supported by French local elected members, the Committee of twinning and international exchanges of Gonfreville and  Orcher and the local union of general confederation of labour, denounced the violation of the judicial decision of the Court of Justice of the European Union and therefore of the international law.SPS

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