On Monday night six members of CitizenGo were arrested in Paris for several hours after protesting the blasphemous opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics.
They were driving with a campaign bus with the message "Stop attacks on Christians". The bus also displayed a picture of the actors parodying the Last Supper and the original painting by Leonardo da Vinci.
After driving for hours without incident, the bus was stopped by a police officer and surrounded by armed police.
The activists were arrested at around 6.30 p.m. for "organizing a demonstration without a permit from the French government." However, these public regulations in Paris apply to formal street demonstrations, not to a lone bus with a simple message.
The Christians were taken to a police station, stripped and searched. They were not released until the next morning, after a lawyer intervened.
In the end, prosecutors decided that there was no basis for charges. They spoke of "irregular" procedures during the arrests. The …More