January 26, 2003	Sunday	Ziqa’ad 22,1423

PARIS, Jan 25: Abderazak Besseghir, the 27-year-old Franco-Algerian baggage-handler at Roissy-Charles de Gaulle airport, who was wrongfully arrested on Dec 28 on the charge of being a terrorist, says that he’s putting the final touches to a book in which he will evoke the “difficulty of being a Muslim in France.”

The book is to detail Mr Besseghir’s wrongful arrest as well as his two-week detention because police did not believe his claim that he was the victim of a frame-up. But an spokesman for the publishers, Editions Albin Michel, notes that the book will be used to evoke, for Mr Besseghir, an Algerian who chose to become French, how difficult it is to be a Muslim in France, “especially as French Muslims seem perpetually suspected of being potential terrorists.”