Bardot, an animal rights activist, has been repeatedly hit with such criminal complaints for criticizing different groups. I wrote earlier about the prosecution of famous actress Brigitte Bardot for saying in 2006 that Muslims were ruining France in a letter to then-Interior Minister (and later President) Nicolas Sarkozy. In another case, the father of French conservative presidential candidate Marine Le Pen was fined because he had called people from the Roma minority “smelly.” A French mother was prosecuted because her son went to school with a shirt reading “I am a bomb.”Ī French teenager was charged for criticizing Islam as a “religion of hate.” “He said ‘dirty whore’ at least a thousand times,” she explained out loud. At his sentencing, Judge Anne Marie Sauteraud read out a list of the bad words used by Galliano to Geraldine Bloch and Philippe Virgitti. For example, fashion designer John Galliano has been found guilty in a French court on charges of making anti-Semitic comments against at least three people in a Paris bar. These laws criminalize speech under vague standards referring to “inciting” or “intimidating” others based on race or religion. Just last year, Ravier was convicted for another comment made against a female socialist senator that was deemed to be sexist and given a fine of 1,500 euros.įrance has been a leader in the rollback on free speech in the West with ever widening laws curtailing free speech. It is another example of criminalizing political speech. He tweeted “Theo, 18 years old, murdered yesterday by a Senegalese … Immigration kills the youth of France.”Ī complaint was filed by the International League against Racism and Anti-Semitism (Licra) and the League for Human Rights (LDH) against Ravier over allegations of spreading hatred toward migrants.Īlain Lothe also alleged that by publishing his tweet “the elected official is not content to react to a news event but wants to highlight the nationality of its author and to involve all people from immigrant backgrounds.” The case is based on a tweet, on January 11, 2022, in which Ravier reacted to the murder of a teen in Paris by a 62-year-old man from Senegal. Ravier faces trial tomorrow in the criminal court of Marseilles on charges of incitement to discrimination, hatred, or violence. The latest such case is a criminal trial of French Senator Stéphane Ravier for stating that “immigration kills the youth of France.” It is another example of why free speech is in a virtual free fall in Europe. We have previously discussed the alarming rollback on free speech rights in the West, particularly in France ( here and here and here and here and here and here and here).
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