In Paris on Sunday 15 June ,2003, a judge ordered detention of the leader of MKO/PMOI/MEK and a number of her followers to face trial for possible links with terrorism. ..The DST, the French equivalent of MI5, claimed that Maryam Rajavi and her husband, Massoud, were ready to turn Auvers into their terrorist headquarters..’The attempts at self-immolation to protest against the arrest of Madame Radjavi are proof of a new fanaticism..
The leafy rue des Gords in this little market town north of Paris hardly lives up to its reputation as a new world capital of terrorism. It was here that hundreds of police smashed open the doors of suburban houses in a dawn raid which the French claimed had pre-empted worldwide strikes by the militant Iranian opposition group, the People’s Mujahideen.
The EU claims it has secret evidence that justifies keeping Iran opposition group PMOI on its terrorist register but cannot reveal the content for security reasons, in a situation stoking anger among some MEPs. “The council [EU states secretariat] is not in a position to give you access to other documents in the file, since