Gen. Robert Pryce calls for a balance between security and understanding motives of protesters in France

General Robert Pryce, the former commander of French troops in Yugoslavia, the former director of the Anfalid military museum, and the current president of the Napoleon Foundation, has said there is a certain historical course in the Europe, especially France, urging the French thinkers to study this course.

“The public security should be maintained, but with consideration of the needs and motives of citizens who are in a state of loss and demonstrating for their rights,” Gen. Pryce said.

"Public opinion should be well studied, whether the demonstrators are using violence or just expressing their opinions peacefully. It is also necessary to realize whether the French security forces have been trained as adequately to face such demonstrations or not,” Gen. Pryce told a seminar organized by the Center for Middle East Studies in Paris.

Titled "Human Rights at the Time of War on Terrorism and social Crises: Between Idealism and Realism", the seminar is moderated by Ahmed Youssef, CEMO's executive director.

Speaking at the seminar – apart from Ali – will be General Robert Pryce, the former commander of French troops in Yugoslavia, the former director of the Anfalid military museum, and the current president of the Napoleon Foundation.

Gilbert Sinuet, a French journalist and writer who accompanied French President Emmanuel Macaron during his latest visit to Egypt, will also speak at the seminar, along with Roland Lombardi from the French National Institute for Studies and Research of the Islamic and Arab Worlds.