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6B Daily News – Thursday, October 17, 2013 Shoeless Mexico Indian kids win at basketball MEXICO CITY (AP) — A team of Trique Indian boys swept through a youth basketball tournament despite their generally short stature and the fact that most play barefoot, earning acclaim in Mexico and abroad. The team from the southern Mexico state of Oaxaca won all six of its games to become this year's champions at the International Festival of Mini-Basketball held recently in Argentina. Other teams in the tournament dubbed the boys the ''the barefoot mice from Mexico'' because they are smaller than the other competitors, said Ernesto Merino, one of the team's coaches and a Trique Indian. He said they compensate for their short stature with ''strength, speed and resistance.'' Children are given tennis shoes when they join the team, but many don't wear the sneakers because they are accustomed to going barefoot, Merino said. Merino said they grow up in large, poor families who struggle to find the money to buy clothes and shoes. ''For them it's normal to not have shoes, to walk barefoot,'' he said. The team's performance won it a minute of applause Wednesday on the floor of Mexico's Chamber of Deputies, as well as accolades from basketball experts, among them Horacio Muratore, president of the International Basketball Federation-Americas, which organizes the annual tournament. ''These boys deserved (the championship) more than anyone,'' Muratore wrote on the organization's website. The boys' achievement has come at a particularly sensitive time for Mexico, which is agonizing over the poor performance of its once well-regarded national soccer team. The Tri, as it's known, has barely kept its hopes alive for qualifying for next year's World Cup in Brazil. Merino said the boys who played at the tournament held in Cordoba, Argentina, are part of a basketball program designed to help poor children in Oaxaca, which is one of Mexico's poorest and most marginalized areas. The Oaxaca state government gives them tennis shoes, uniforms and a monthly $46 stipend. ''We see a basketball as an opportunity to grow in life,'' Merino said. The program was started three years ago and it currently has 40 children enrolled, including five girls. To enter the program, children must have good grades in school, speak their native tongue and help with chores at home. ''We want them to be prepared in life,'' Merino said. France expels girl to Kosovo after class trip MITROVICA, Kosovo (AP) — Leonarda Dibrani was finishing up a field trip when French police showed up at the bus, detaining the 15-year-old schoolgirl in front of her classmates before authorities expelled her to Kosovo because her family's asylum application had been rejected. The incident earlier this month, but which was made public this week, has sparked outrage from immigrant groups and others who say police went too far in publicly shaming the teenager. It has also been an embarrassment for President Francois Hollande's government, which has tried to portray a kinder France in a bid to distance itself from conservative predecessor Nicolas Sarkozy, known for his tough immigration policies. An investigation into the treatment of the girl, which also drew criticism from within the ranks of Hollande's Socialist Party, has been launched. Now, Dibrani says she just wants to get back to France. ''I was crying on my teacher's lap and he was crying,'' Dibrani said Wednesday, recounting her ordeal in an interview with The Associated Press. ''My friends asked: 'Did you kill someone that the police are looking for you?' I was afraid. I felt bad and ashamed. ''My home is in France,'' Dibrani said in French, dressed in jeans and a colorful paisley print tunic. ''I don't speak the language here and I don't know anyone. I just want to go back to France and forget everything that happened.'' The Dibrani family — parents and six children — is now sheltered in a house in the northern town of Mitrovica in an area inhabited by ethnic Albanians. Kosovo is one of Europe's poorest regions. The Dibrani family fled Kosovo about five years ago because they are Roma, or Gypsies, and faced discrimination and few opportunities, according to French activist Jean-Jacques Boy, who works with immigrant families in the Doubs region in eastern France, where the family lived. The Interior Ministry said the family's application for asylum had been rejected, so it no longer had the right to stay in France. The ministry said the family repeatedly refused to leave, so police detained the father and expelled him to Kosovo on Oct. 8. Police detained the mother and five of their children Oct. 9, but Leonarda was away on a school field trip. The ministry says police met the girl's school bus when it returned from the trip later that day. Prime Minister JeanMarc Ayrault ordered an investigation into how she was taken into custody and said that if any violations are found, the family will be brought back to France and their case will be further examined. The association Education Without Frontiers Network said the expulsion was a setback for their efforts to keep children living in the country illegally in school and to protect them from police intervention. Conservatives defended the expulsion, saying police were enforcing the law. But France's education minister said schools should offer sanctuary, not expose children to arrest. The expelled father, Reshat Dibrani, said he has yet to announce to his family that France doesn't want them. ''I don't know how I will keep lying to the kids,'' he said. ''It's bad. Every morning they ask me (when they will return to France),'' he said. A check-up for the family car has been his alibi. He said he told his children that ''it will take a few days until it's repaired. ''I don't know how I will keep lying to them,'' he said. Greek Parliament lifts 6 MPs' immunity ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece's Parliament lifted the immunity from prosecution of six lawmakers from the extreme right-wing Golden Dawn party on Wednesday, as part of a crackdown on the group sparked by the fatal stabbing last month of a Greek rapper. Golden Dawn lawmakers walked out before the vote, which saw near-unanimous approval. The government argues the party operates as a criminal organization. Golden Dawn argues that the case against it is politically motivated. ''I am being prosecuted for what I believe in, and not for my actions,'' Panagiotis Iliopoulos, one of the lawmakers whose immunity was lifted, said in Parliament ahead of the vote. Three other top party members, including its leader Nikos Michaloliakos, have been jailed pending trial on charges of running or participating in a criminal group. It was the first time since democracy was restored in Greece after the 1974 end of a seven-year military dictatorship that sitting members of Parliament have been jailed. With Greece plunged into a financial crisis, Golden Dawn rose from a fringe group to win 18 of Parliament's 300 seats in 2012 elections, despite widespread accusations it organizes attacks on immigrants, political opponents and gays. Now Greece's third most popular party, Golden Dawn denies it is neo-Nazi, although many prominent members have an affinity for Nazi symbols and slogans. The crackdown on the party came after the death of 34-year-old Pavlos Fyssas, a rap musician who was stabbed as he left a cafe on the outskirts of Piraeus. A man arrested at the scene of the attack admitted to the stabbing and identified himself as being involved in Golden Dawn. None of the six lawmakers have been charged with any involvement in Fyssas' death. Instead, they are expected to be charged with involvement in a criminal group and some also with public disturbance offenses. The party has vehemently denied it had anything to do with Fyssas' stabbing. ''It is clear that the aim you all have is to politically disarm Golden Dawn. It is the aim of all of you to exclude Golden Dawn from elections,'' said Ilias Kassidiaris, the party spokesman and one of the six deputies who saw his immunity lifted. Greece is to hold local elections next year. ''We are the subject of a disgusting conspiracy, with illegal and unconstitutional arrests ordered by a government that is enslaved to foreign interests and is selling out the country,'' Kassidiaris said. 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