Six Tamils convicted in Paris

The Court of Appeal of France has convicted six Tamils belong to an LTTE shadow organisation, the Tamil Co-ordinating Council last Wednesday, informed sources said.

This is the first time a court in Paris had convicted Tamils for extorting money from people resident in Paris.

The leader of the organisation Parithy and five others have been sentenced to a five-year imprisonment and the sentence suspended.

Meanwhile, according to sources, in an operation called 'Neck pain,' 37 Tamils have been arrested in Canada for insurance defaults, which totalled to millions of Canadian dollars.

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