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French Mayor to be Tried for Muslim 'Problem' Comments
France 24 ^ | 12/22/16

Posted on 12/24/2016 6:38:29 PM PST by marshmallow

A far-right French mayor will be tried on hate charges over comments that include a claim the number of Muslim students in his city was a "problem", a judicial source said Wednesday.

Robert Menard, who is an ally of France's anti-immigrant National Front party, will face a charge in a Paris court of incitement to hatred or discrimination, the source said.

"In a class in the city centre in my town, 91 percent of the children are Muslims. Obviously, this is a problem. There are limits to tolerance", he said in September 5 comments on French news channel LCI.

Also in September, on France's first day back to school, he tweeted his regret at witnessing "the great replacement", using a term by xenophobic writer Renaud Camus to describe the country's white, Christian population being overtaken by foreign-born Muslims.

Menard, who is the mayor of southern France town Beziers, denied his comments were discriminatory.

"I just described the situation in my town," he told AFP. "It is not a value judgement, it's a fact. It's what I can see."

According to France-based anti-racism group Licra, the trial is set for March 8.

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1 posted on 12/24/2016 6:38:29 PM PST by marshmallow
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2 posted on 12/24/2016 6:40:05 PM PST by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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The insanity induced by the chronic mental disease known as liberalism raises its ugly head every day.


3 posted on 12/24/2016 6:46:50 PM PST by lgjhn23 (It's easy to be liberal when you're dumber than a box of rocks.)
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Freedom of Speech

There are only two levels:

zero(0)
or
full

There is no in between.

You would think that even stinking leftists would understand that simplest of all concepts. But they can’t.


4 posted on 12/24/2016 6:49:07 PM PST by samtheman (Voted Trump)
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According to France-based anti-racism group Licra

This Licra group and all others like it need to have charges filed against them for treason. Then kick the entire group out of France.

5 posted on 12/24/2016 6:55:57 PM PST by Mr Apple ( Let's play.........Hide the Muslim: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59J0i3LNoY8)
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Menard, who is the mayor of southern France town Beziers, denied his comments were discriminatory.
"I just described the situation in my town," he told AFP. "It is not a value judgement, it's a fact. It's what I can see."

Wow, a politician, and a French one at that, who doesn't raise the white flag and retract his comments when the Media complains. Good for him.

6 posted on 12/24/2016 6:57:25 PM PST by El Cid (Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house...)
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islam is a totalitarian death cult founded by a child rapist.


7 posted on 12/24/2016 7:24:53 PM PST by Uncle Miltie (Higher Taxes, Less Freedom, More Bureaucracy! What could possibly go wrong?)
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“The Merchant Of Venice”. Europe is still the same.


8 posted on 12/24/2016 7:31:11 PM PST by onedoug
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They need to start demanding they receive freedom of speech !


9 posted on 12/24/2016 8:07:41 PM PST by This I Wonder32460 (You can't always get what you want. Sometimes you get what you need.)
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More and more the liberals are clampiong down on free speech in order to wipe out any and all dissent. Especially when it comes to immigration policy.

liberals are destroying democracy throughout the west.


10 posted on 12/24/2016 10:04:03 PM PST by Cubs Fan (Trump and Brexit 2016--The year the good guys won. Remember it.)
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The insanity induced by the chronic mental disease known as liberalism raises its ugly head every day.

So true. Sometimes I really wish there was a "like" button this forum. Comments like this would gets a lot of them. Check out my new tagline; it too says the truth about the leftist mentality.

11 posted on 12/24/2016 10:04:57 PM PST by Boomer (You can't shame a leftist because they don't understand the concept of honor.)
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Wow. But euro politicians can advocate white genocide no problem.


12 posted on 12/24/2016 10:06:13 PM PST by Organic Panic (Rich White Man Evicts Poor Black Family From Public Housing - MSNBCPBSCNNNYTABC)
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A far-right French mayor will be tried on hate charges over comments that include a claim the number of Muslim students in his city was a “problem”, a judicial source said Wednesday.

How do you defend yourself when the Law decides that a problem is not really a problem? Nothing the Mayor can do or say will prove his is right when the law has turned a blind eye!


13 posted on 12/25/2016 7:27:46 AM PST by 48th SPS Crusader (I am an American. Not a Republican or a Democrat)
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