France Ends 341-Year-Old Colonial Slavery Law in Historic Move
June 17, 2026
Journalist Bisan Owda has highlighted another devastating consequence of Israel’s assault on Gaza: the mountains of rubble, toxic debris and environmental hazards now surrounding Palestinians wherever they go.
Entire neighbourhoods have been reduced to wreckage.
Homes.
Schools.
Hospitals.
Roads.
All turned into millions of tonnes of debris that now pose serious health risks to a population already struggling to survive.
“Who is responsible for this dump?” Bisan asks.
And perhaps more importantly:
Who is responsible for cleaning it up?
Children are forced to play among the ruins.
Families walk through toxic debris every day.
And entire communities are being left to live inside what many describe as an environmental catastrophe.
Even after the destruction, they are expected to live with its consequences.
The rubble is not just evidence of what was lost.
It is a warning about what Palestinians will continue to face long after the headlines move on.
Courtesy of @wizard_bisan1
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English Script:
Steevy Gustave: We are not the descendants of slaves. We are the descendants of free human beings who were reduced to slavery. For centuries in our country, the law has condoned the unconscionable. It accepted that one human being could be the property of another. It accepted that children be torn from their mothers, that women be sold. That men be branded, whipped, mutilated.
Max Mathiasin: Today’s vote is another step in homage to the men, women, and children put into slavery, to those men and women in slavery and from whom I am descended.
Steevy Gustave: So yes, repealing the Code Noir is necessary, but no vote alone can repair centuries of broken lives. And the greatness of a Republic is not measured only by what it commemorates; it is also measured by the way it still protects human dignity today.
