Gallia Watch
April 14, 2014
While I try to decide what is most important to write about, in a time of continuous and momentous headline news, here is a story of a crime that took place in Évry on March 31. It is not an isolated or random crime. On the contrary, thousands of young girls in France have been subjected to this kind of brutality, only to find the courts lax and indifferent to their cause. This time, possibly for the first time, it was a little bit different. From Valeurs Actuelles:
Some crimes have a wide-ranging impact. This is one of them, not by its atrocity, since our daily lives are full of it, but by its significance. It occurred on March 30, a little past midnight, in a park in Évry, the administrative center of Prime Minister Manuel Valls’ district. (Note: Valls was mayor of Évry until 2012.) Since it took place the night before the second round of the municipal elections, it did not get the attention it deserved.
That night, an eighteen-year-old girl got off the regional rail at Évry station, and made a call on her cell phone. Four individuals jumped on her, and dragged her to a near-by park. They stripped her of everything, then they undressed her and raped her, taking turns. An indescribable rape of barbaric cruelty. The gang of four tortured her for more than two hours before leaving her, bleeding. A driver in a passing car took her and called for help. She had enough strength to file a complaint. The police went with her to the E.R. where she was given a three-month exemption from work. Now she is traumatized for life.
Thanks to her detailed description and the video surveillance images, the police arrested the four suspects in less than twenty-four hours, and their DNA confirmed their guilt. The questioning began on March 31 in the afternoon. The four rapists are minors: two of them are thirteen, one fifteen, and one seventeen. Three Turkish brothers, one Moroccan. Special facts: the eldest, seventeen, had been released six months earlier after serving two thirds of a two-year sentence for the rape of the son of a gendarme sub-officer. Released without surveillance. Now he is a repeat offender. Two of the others have already been arrested for armed robbery. Four criminals, three repeat offenders – all minors!
During the questioning, and from what we know about the investigation, the minors did not express the slightest remorse. On the contrary, they expressed their hatred: yes, they would not have touched the girl if she had been a Turk; yes, they attacked her because she was French and “the French are all sons of whores”. The judge who jailed them indicted them for gang rape and barbarity, but also, and this is very rare, for racism.
These facts speak for themselves. We hope Madame Taubira has been made aware of them, because of their significance. The four young criminals feared nothing, not punishment or taboo. And yet their parents had settled in France, and they attend school. Where did this thirst for hatred come from, that led them to commit unspeakable acts on a young girl, barely older than they, a symbol of their host country? What will be blamed as the cause? Unemployment? Uncertainty? Inequality?
A young woman will suffer privately the rest of her life. And four thugs will also waste their young years in a prison – we cannot believe they won’t be duly sentenced. But there is that reform to the criminal code instituted by Madame Taubira – it seems that the “icon of the left” made passing this reform one of the conditions for her staying on as Justice minister. A reform which, in its current form, aims to empty out the prisons of those criminals sentenced to five years or less, is indulgent with regard to minors, and is not dissuasive with regard to repeat offenders of all ages.
True punishment is inseparable from respect. But respect for the human person, for authority, for the laws of a country is but the result of a hierarchy of values taught from childhood. According to the latest report from the National Consultative Commission on Human Rights, 68% of the French believe that foreigners “do not make any attempt to integrate”. (…)
Note: We get from this that Taubira said she would stay on as minister of Justice only if she were allowed to pass a harmful and unjust law. The fact that Hollande (or Valls) agreed to her demand speaks volumes about their concept of right and wrong. In a sane society, she would have been fired from the ministry for attempting to pass such a reform. Since becoming minister she has emphasized her goal of emptying out the prisons on grounds that it doesn’t do any good to keep them locked up! We also learn that she is nicknamed “icon of the left”!
Some reactions from Le Salon Beige readers:
– All my sympathy to the girl. How is it that the press and the TV news did not mention it? This act of barbarity says a lot about the state of mind of some people, the worst thing being their youth, which does not excuse them, on the contrary, it is an omen of the worst that will come if someone doesn’t do something.
– Their place is not in France. The misinformation on the double penalty is a scandal. All patriots and Catholics who supported Sarkozy would do well to remember that it was he, and not François Hollande or Harlem Désir, or any other Socialist, who passed that law.
Note: He is speaking of the law on double penalty, which Sarkozy signed. The law forbids double punishment for a crime. A criminal who serves a sentence in France for a crime, cannot be deported back to his homeland once he is released. The deportation is regarded as a “second punishment.” So these four rapists, having served their time, will be allowed to stay in France.
Also, Harlem Désir, head of the Socialist Party has just been named as Secretary of State on European Affairs, an appointment that has aroused anger from many quarters.
– With the arrival of Harlem Désir in the government, these four individuals can strut their stuff. Let’s bet that they will quickly be released and the girl will be put in jail for “having provoked them.”
Note: Several criminal trials (two of them in Avignon) have done what he says – the rapists were all excused on grounds that the rape was just a “right of passage” of youth, and the female victims were all “begging for it” anyway.
– Now, Catholics, do you get it? Stop being naive.
Note: LSB readers, who are mostly Catholic, are realists about Islam and don’t hesitate to upbraid Catholics for their bleeding heart attitudes.