Mumia to Paris Officials: Tell Them "No"

Mumia Abu-Jamal sent the following letter, dated October 30, to the mayor of Paris.

My dear Monsieur Le Maire and City Councillors of Paris:

I’m informed that you and your colleagues received an insulting and somewhat threatening letter assuring you that my trial was fair, and my conviction and death sentence was just.

As for the fairness of the trial I invite you to read the Amnesty International report on my case to determine for yourselves if the trial or subsequent appeals were even remotely fair.

Only in America could a trial judge say (in the presence of a sworn court reporter), “I’ll help them fry the n----r,” and be considered fair.

Only in America could a state supreme court justice, Ron Castille, serve as chief prosecutor on direct appeal, and also sit as an appellate judge on the same case, and not recuse himself. What a fair appeal!

The trial featured lies, just as the threatening letter to you did.

If the trial was truly fair, why would the Philadelphia letter propose a deal?

That “deal,” by the way is but another lie, a devil’s bargain that they are powerless to grant under any stretch of American or international law.

The letter-writers are merchants of death who wish to trick you into their campaign to not only kill me, but to wipe my name from the face of the earth.

Why else would they care about a small street in St. Denis? Or an award of Citizen of Honor from the City of Light?

The Empire thinks it is Master of the World and can tell all what to do.

I respectfully request you to tell them, “No.”

Merci,
Mumia Abu-Jamal