Bobbies confiscate your holiday snaps
Like the sunset at London’s St Paul’s cathedral? Whatever you do, don’t take your camera out. The Independent’s front page leads with reports that amateur and professional photographers are increasingly stopped by police as “terrorists on a reconnaissance mission”. Victims have included two Austrian tourists snapping a London bus station, and even renowned photojournalist Martin Parr, “taking pictures of revellers in Liverpool.” This follows publication of Lord Carlile’s review of the 2000 Terrorism act, Section 44 of which provides, not without controversy, that areas can be designated as “stop-and-search” zones based on their likelihood of being a terrorist target. Speaking to the London daily, Lord Carlile has expressed concern about over-zealous policing. Meanwhile, an amateur was recently pulled up in Brighton for taking photographs “of Christmas lights on his way to work”.
In a time of crisis with high unemployment, young Lithuanians are following in the footsteps of their emigrant ancestors. Tens of thousands have left the country in search of a better life, mainly in the British Isles and Scandinavia. The weekly Veidas reports:
The new Eurogroup meeting on February 9 is not enough to banish the spectre of a Greek bankruptcy. While Athens may largely be responsible for the crisis, the EU and its partners are not blameless themselves. La Stampa argues that their confused messages and the absence of any strategy have transformed a resolvable problem into an explosive chaos.
Two camps, two theories, and two visions of France: 18 years after the massacre of 800,000 Tutsis, the precise role played by Paris is still the subject of heated debate, fueled by the findings of successive criminal investigations.