{"id":1349,"date":"2021-06-23T20:53:53","date_gmt":"2021-06-23T20:53:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/?p=1349"},"modified":"2021-06-23T20:52:43","modified_gmt":"2021-06-23T20:52:43","slug":"french-police-detain-s-african-opera-star-for-being-black","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/french-police-detain-s-african-opera-star-for-being-black","title":{"rendered":"FRENCH POLICE DETAIN S. AFRICAN OPERA STAR FOR BEING \u2018BLACK\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\">Zambia<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>South African opera star Pretty Yende on Tuesday accused French customs agents of treating her with \u201coutrageous racial discrimination\u201d at Paris\u2019 Charles de Gaulle airport, a claim strongly contested by police and airport sources.<br \/>\n\u201cPolice brutality is real for someone who looks like me,\u201d the soprano, who is black, wrote on her Instagram account a day after arriving for a string of performances in Paris.<br \/>\nYende, 36, said she was \u201ctraumatized\u201d after being \u201cstripped and searched like a criminal offender\u201d at the airport.<br \/>\n\u201cI am one of the very very lucky ones to be alive to see the day today even with the ill-treatment and outrageous racial discrimination and psychological torture and very offensive racial comments in a country that I\u2019ve given so much of my heart and virtue to,\u201d she wrote.<br \/>\nYende did not say why she has pulled aside for questioning, but a French police source said the singer had arrived from Milan on a South African passport without a visa.<br \/>\n\u201cAt no moment were there any incidents,\u201d the source said, adding that Yende had not been asked to remove her clothes.<br \/>\nShe was released an hour and a half later with a visa allowing her to enter French territory, an airport source said, adding that Yende was held for \u201cverification\u201d purposes that had nothing to do with the color of her skin.<br \/>\nYende, who was born in the small South African town of Piet Retief, has enjoyed a meteoric rise over the past decade, starring in operas from Vienna and Berlin to Barcelona and Los Angeles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Zambia. South African opera star Pretty Yende on Tuesday accused French customs agents of treating her with \u201coutrageous racial discrimination\u201d at Paris\u2019 Charles de Gaulle airport, a claim strongly contested by police and airport sources. \u201cPolice brutality is real for someone who looks like me,\u201d the soprano, who is black, wrote on her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":1348,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7,8,10,16],"tags":[234,235,463,464,233],"class_list":["post-1349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-homepage-english","category-parties","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-zambia","tag-french-police","tag-racism","tag-zambia"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>FRENCH POLICE DETAIN S. 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