(Anadolu) French police raided Wednesday the home of Muslim NGO BarakaCity’s founder and arrested him, the organization, which broadcast the raid live on its social channels, said.
Idriss Sihamedi, the NGO’s president, was beaten up and arrested in front of his four children.
“Search this morning at the home of the president of BarakaCity,” it wrote on Facebook and Twitter, along with images “of the beds turned over, tables broken, baskets and linen turned over.”
“Idriss was violently beaten by a police officer who pressed his head against the [floor] tiles while he was not resisting and cooperating.”
A BarakaCity employee later filmed the interior of the premises, showing torn switches, broken surveillance cameras and doors, books and files completely turned over.
