- 02 Apr 2023 19:49
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Woman Arrested for Calling French President Macron "Trash"
Hard to believe this is happening in France. I thought France was supposed to be a bastion of free speech.
Valérie first came onto the police’s radar after she was pictured in front of some graffiti calling the French leader “trash”, which officers believed she was responsible for writing, a claim she denies.
The police went on to confront her with a post on Facebook that she wrote on Tuesday of last week, which said ahead of a Macron press conference: "The trash will talk tomorrow at 1 p.m., for people who are nothing, it is always on TV that we find the trash."
Valérie is a middle-aged woman in the Saint-Martin-lez-Tatinghem commune of the Calais region of France, and has long been a Gillet Juanes (Yellow Vest) protester.
She was greeted at her home by three police officers, who arrested her for supposedly insulting French President Macron on Facebook under the controversial criminal code that criminalises spreading “contempt of public officials”.
For this, she was arrested and will be tried on June 20th, when she faces up to a year in jail and a fine of up to €15,000. The vaguely worded statute under which she will be charged, criminalises statements deemed to “affect the personal dignity or the respect owed to a public official”.
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2023/0 ... ial-media/
Kurt Zindulka, March 31, 2023
Hard to believe this is happening in France. I thought France was supposed to be a bastion of free speech.
Valérie first came onto the police’s radar after she was pictured in front of some graffiti calling the French leader “trash”, which officers believed she was responsible for writing, a claim she denies.
The police went on to confront her with a post on Facebook that she wrote on Tuesday of last week, which said ahead of a Macron press conference: "The trash will talk tomorrow at 1 p.m., for people who are nothing, it is always on TV that we find the trash."
Valérie is a middle-aged woman in the Saint-Martin-lez-Tatinghem commune of the Calais region of France, and has long been a Gillet Juanes (Yellow Vest) protester.
She was greeted at her home by three police officers, who arrested her for supposedly insulting French President Macron on Facebook under the controversial criminal code that criminalises spreading “contempt of public officials”.
For this, she was arrested and will be tried on June 20th, when she faces up to a year in jail and a fine of up to €15,000. The vaguely worded statute under which she will be charged, criminalises statements deemed to “affect the personal dignity or the respect owed to a public official”.
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2023/0 ... ial-media/
Kurt Zindulka, March 31, 2023