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(ANSAmed) - PARIS, DECEMBER 13 - Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi showed himself as champion of women's rights, including of European women, denouncing their "tragic condition" during a conference in Paris yesterday. On the third day of his controversial visit in France, the Colonel spoke of the 'Situation of the Women in the World' in front of one thousand women, almost all of African origin and almost all veiled, in a luxury hall of the Gabriel palace on the Champs-Elysees. "Welcome, Your Excellency," hundreds of women said in chorus when Gaddafi entered the hall. "Gaddafi wants the French women to rise at his arrival," warned Khadija Khali, president of the French Union of Muslim Women and of a pro-Libyan association, who organised the meeting. Applauded when he denounced "the injustices" towards the African women, the Libyan leader received softer applause when he criticised the "tragic conditions of the woman in Europe, forced sometimes to do work which she refuses", such as mechanic or bricklayer. "I want to save the European woman who is struggling," assured the leader of the Libyan revolution. The audience were invited to ask questions, but without making Gaddafi "angry", Mrs Khali reminded. After the end of the conference, France Presse collected some critical opinions. "I came here to see what he had to say," commented for example Catherine Chastenet, president of the association 'Femmes et libertes'. "How can he say he has done much for women in the world when he tortured the Bulgarian nurses?" she asks herself. (ANSAmed).