(Minghui.org) Falun Dafa practitioners held an information day event at Place de la Comédie in the center of Montpellier, a southern French city, on November 5, 2024. They demonstrated the five sets of Falun Dafa exercises to tourists and passersby, exposed the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) persecution of the practice, and collected signatures on a petition to help stop the CCP’s forced organ harvesting from living Falun Gong practitioners. Falun Gong is also called Falun Dafa.
Located on the Mediterranean coast, Montpellier is the capital of the Hérault province, and a city known for its history. It is a land of human settlements and ethnic integration. This thousand-year-old city is famous for its medical school, which was founded in 1220. It is the oldest medical school in the world.
The practitioners clarified the facts about Falun Gong to tourists and passersby in the city center. Many people were attracted by the peaceful energy field they felt when practitioners demonstrated the exercises, and some spent a lot of time reading the display boards. People were shocked and saddened by the brutality of the CCP’s persecution. Throughout the afternoon, 386 people signed a petition demanding that the CCP immediately stop the persecution.
Falun Gong practitioners demonstrated the exercises and clarified the truth at Place de la Comédie in the center of Montpellier, a city in southern France, on November 5, 2024.
Tourists and passersby signed a petition calling for an immediate end of the persecution of Falun Gong.
People Encourage Practitioners to Keep Spreading the Truth
Local residents Billie and her mother-in-law thanked the practitioners for telling them about the CCP’s persecution of Falun Gong. They couldn’t understand why a government would persecute its own people just because they wanted to do Falun Dafa exercises that make people healthy physically and mentally. Marie-Claude and Christine shared the same view and were puzzled that such a major humanitarian disaster was rarely mentioned in the media.
Ghislaine, an energy healer, was appalled by the CCP’s forced organ harvesting. She said she uses social media every day, and she was surprised that such important information was learned on the street and not on social media. She encouraged practitioners to spread this information more vigorously on social media. She signed a petition hoping that the CCP would stop organ harvesting, and said, “Usually I never sign anything, but I signed this time.”
Lina (middle) and Sofia (right) signed the petition calling to end the persecution.
Lina and Sofia, college students studying interior architecture, not only signed the petition, but also took several “Stop Organ Harvesting” brochures. They said they would collect signatures from their families on a petition initiated by DAFOH (Doctors Against Forced Organ Harvesting) and ETAC (International Coalition to End Transplant Abuse in China).
Meeting is to Understand the Truth
Bernard, a retiree and Falun Gong practitioner, had spent his entire career in the Paris area. He has been practicing Falun Gong for nearly a year, and he often reads Zhuan Falun, the main book of Falun Gong. As his understanding of the practice deepens, he believes that practicing Falun Gong can greatly help in both health and spiritual improvement. He hopes to share the preciousness of Falun Dafa with people he meets, “so that everyone can benefit from it in their daily lives,” said Bernard.
Falun Dafa practitioner Bernard
During the information day event, Bernard met many people, including some open-minded young people. He was pleasantly surprised to find that many young people were impressed by the principles of Truthfulness, Compassion, and Forbearance.
Bernard recalled that he was deeply impressed by encounters with two passersby who showed great interest in Falun Dafa. One of them was very touched because she could feel the energy radiated by Falun Gong practitioners. Bernard introduced Zhuan Falun to her and told her that if she could read the book, she would find answers about life.
On the same day, Falun Gong practitioners also helped a Chinese citizen quit the CCP, and helped two Chinese students quit the Young Pioneers, an organization affiliated with the CCP. The two students were once strongly influenced by the lies and propaganda defaming Falun Gong in the state-controlled media. At first, they did not want to get close to practitioners and learn the truth. However, when a practitioner explained the facts about Falun Gong and the persecution in China to them, they eventually recognized the true nature of the CCP and agreed to quit its youth organization.
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