Part I Confiscation of Enemies and Traitors Property
Article 1 Extent of the Property Confiscated
1. Any immovable and movable property shall be confiscated without any compensation to the benefit of the Nation, and to the extent that this has not been effectuated until now, in particular properly rights (as claims, securities. immaterial rights) which on the day of the Partition was owned or which is still owned:
a) By the traitors and enemies supporters of the regime established in occupied Provence, by legal persons incorporated under the public laws of the occupied territories, by the Islamist Party, by the political parties and other groups, organizations, enterprises, institutions, associations, funds and property of these regimes or connected therewith as well as of other non Gallo-European legal persons, or
a) By natural persons of non Gallo-European origin with the exception of persons who prove that they faithfully defended the Nation of France, that they never committed any offence against the Nation and that they either participated actively in the combat for its defence, or suffered under the rebel or Islamist terror, or
c) by natural persons, who have displayed activities directed against the sovereignty, the independence, the integrity, the democratic-republican system, the security and defence of the Nation, who have instigated such activities or have solicited other persons to carry on such activities, who, by any manner, have intentionally supported the enemies and traitors or during the rebellion.
2. The provisions shall apply also to legal persons to the extent that natural persons who are members thereof or share in the property or in the enterprise (shareholders) are responsible for the steps taken by the board representing the juristic person or that these persons have failed to use the appropriate diligence in the selection and supervision of the board.
3. Likewise subject to confiscation is any property which during the period subsequent to the rebellion, has been owned by persons mentioned in subsections I and 2 and which during the time set forth In subsection I, sentence 1, has been owned or is still owned by persons in the possession of which it would not be subject to confiscation unless the inclusion of such property in the confiscation would not comply with the principles of equity.
4. The competent District Committee shall determine whether or not the prerequisite-sites of be confiscation under this edict exist. The decision can be served by publication, even if the prerequisites of the Governmental Ordinance, Concerning the Procedure in Matters Which Do Not Fall Within the Competence of Political Authorities (administrative procedure) are not complied with.
An appeal can be filed from the decision of the District National Committee with the Provincial Committee, National Council. The Provincial National committee may even in the course of the proceedings assume the carrying out of the procedure and decide the matter as the first instance. If the Provincial National Committee decides in this manner as first instance an appeal may be filed with the Ministry of the Interior.
Refugees
Asma had recounted her memories of the partition. She told him how she clearly remembered the pictures of the daily trek of those expelled from Autonomous Region. More than one million French who were ethnically cleansed after the partition.
Their faces expressed the same torment which marks all those unwanted, made homeless and stateless not knowing where to turn for shelter, huddled together, hungry and thirsty, rejected with their loss of identity and of alienation. Families deprived of their citizenship with nothing more than a suitcase full of meagre belongings.
Rooted from their homes by force, cut off from all that was familiar to them, they were expelled into the unknown, losing their human and constitutional rights, without justice or social protection. Ethnic cleansing left a deep would on their souls, a wound that that never quite healed, with the feeling of rejection, guilt, humiliation, sham, and angry with those who rejected them.
The fate of the Gallos living in Provence, who were expelled or forced to flee after the partition, showed the forced exodus and maltreatment of the ethnic French minority in Algharb. The only crime they were guilty of was being ethnic French, Gallo-Europeans.
After the partition millions of French fled or were driven from their homes where they had lived for centuries. Hundreds died during the forced exodus, many died in the holding camps or suffered from illness and disease.
The methods of expulsion used included the burning of homes, separating men from women and children, brutality and violence against men. The homes that were confiscated were occupied by the flood of new arrivals, though many were left to decay in villages that disappeared from the map.
Those who remained became a minority after the treaty of Evian. The police of the Autonomous Region responded to their protest marches by killing many innocent civilians who were treated as second-rate citizens.
They were expelled by the Algharbis from their homeland; more than one million of them became victims of all the cruelty connected with ethnic cleansing. Their homes and businesses were expropriated virtually ignored by the international community ignored their misery.
It was many years since they had been expelled from our homes, millions were ethnically cleansed merely because they were not Settlers, thousands of innocent civilians were tortured and murdered, supposedly to revenge French misdeeds that they did not commit.
A joint commission was set up a few years ago between the two governments with the purpose of resolving the misdeeds perpetrated on both sides; it ended with nothing more than a simply declaration of intent.
The Algharbis side was vehemently opposed to the representation of expropriated French in the commission, thus objecting to discussions with the only group which has a legitimate grievance against them in reparation of the losses incurred by their expulsion, and the right of self-determination.
Atrocities were committed by both sides in People's Courts. The Immigrant partisans went to the nearby villages and collected all of the men between sixteen and sixty and even older and drove them on foot to Avignon. During the journey they were beaten and rifle shots were fired over their heads to prepare them for the tribunal.
The same day hundreds of armed Algharbis, so-called partisans, arrived in trucks. They gathered in the market place for a demonstration, one of their officers made a fervent speech, which was greeted with roars of approval. It was as if by previous agreement, they then dispersed in all directions. It was not long before it was clear what was going on.
The French men and with them many women and children were driven in larger or smaller groups to the square, all the houses were thoroughly searched to insure that all of the men were present, old and young, also invalids and those seriously ill. The individual groups of French were escorted by yelling Algharbis, heavily armed, who shot blindly in all directions and knocked down anyone who came in their way. Meanwhile, other troops of Algharbis brought the men they had rounded up to the town centre. More than a thousand French men were rounded-up in the square in the afternoon. They were ordered to fall in and they stood there with their hands above their head, waiting for what would happen next.
There followed the most horrifying scenes. The men were forced to lie down on the pavement, to stand up quickly and then get in line again. The Algharbis passed down the lines, brutally kicking the men. They hit them with whatever lay convenient to their hands; they spat at them and loosed off wildly with their rifles.
Many men were too badly wounded to get up again and lay in great pain. But this was still not enough. There was a large fountain in front of the town hall into which the victims of this terrible madness, were finally thrown one after the other, they were struck at with sticks and poles and kept under water. The Algharbis even shot into the mass and the water slowly reddened.
Whenever anyone tried to scramble out of the fountain, they stamped on his fingers with their rifle butts. While these atrocities were taking place, the so-call
ed people's court established itself on the terrace of a restaurant opposite the Palais des Papes, behind tables, which had been set up, the Algharbis partisans seated themselves.
Around the table stood a number of persons, who functioned as prosecutors and who selected the individual French out of the rows. One behind the other, with their hands above their heads, the French had to appear before the tribunal. The last twenty or thirty steps up to the tribunal had to be made in a creeping position. Arriving there, each one of them received his sentence, which was written on his back with a marker.
One of the first victims was Franck Durand, a restaurant owner. After he had been selected, he was placed against the wall of the Palais and shot to death by the Algharbis with their automatic pistols. He was followed by others who had to stand against the wall with their hands raised falling without a word before the bullets of his executioners.
The cries of the bleeding victims soon drowned out all of the other sounds; many of the living sat or lay with the indifference of despair beside the bodies of the dead. By the early evening, the majority of the men, who had been rounded-up, were taken into custody; only a few were sent home. A member of the Town Council was sentenced to death by hanging. He was strung up on a