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...Just 48 hours after Hassanzade's triumph in the final, French government officials announced that they would grant the young fighter legal residence papers. Those, in turn, will allow him to apply for naturalization on his 18th birthday so he can represent France on the international stage in the most French of all combat sports: savate, also known as la boxe française. (See pictures of boxing...
...Only this sport can help me secure my future, allow me to feel freer," Hassanzade told French radio station RTL of the protection that citizenship will provide him. "I want to compete in European and World championships, representing France, and I want to sing La Marseillaise. People who know me already see me as French. They don't think I'm a nothing...
...give their son a better, more peaceful life, paid smugglers to bring him to France in 2006. Once there, he was abandoned on the streets of Lille by the same people who were supposed to help get him settled in Europe. Despite having little money and knowing no French, the new arrival managed to communicate his dilemma with passersby, and eventually wound up in a children's refuge run by French social services in Tourcoing, near France's border with Belgium...
...addition to the French language lessons and other instruction he was given, Hassanzade was initiated into French boxing by a local social worker and savate coach, Bruno Cardoso. As well as taking the young Afghan under his wing - keeping tabs on his education and helping him with his request to obtain legal residency - Cardoso also shaped Hassanzade's raw athletic talent into the skilled boxing abilities that fueled his rapid rise...
...groups, which include Oxfam, CARE International and the Dutch and French branches of Doctors Without Borders, have been told to turn over bank account information and lists of their assets. Vanessa van Schoor, Sudan operational manager for MSF Holland, said government agents had begun seizing computers and scanners at the group's offices...