Posted on 06/01/2024 3:44:33 AM PDT by billorites
A court in Switzerland sentenced a writer and commentator to 60 days in jail for calling a journalist a “fat lesbian,” and the decision is being lauded by LGBTQ+ groups.
On Monday, French-Swiss polemicist Alain Bonnet, who goes by Alain Soral, was sentenced by the Lausanne court for the crimes of defamation, discrimination and incitement to hatred after he criticized Catherine Macherel, a journalist for Swiss newspapers Tribune de Geneve and 24 Heures, in a Facebook video two years ago.
“This court decision is an important moment for justice and rights of LGBTQI people in Switzerland,” said Murial Waeger, co-director of a lesbian activist group. “The conviction of Alain Soral is a strong signal that homophobic hatred cannot be tolerated in our society.”
In addition to the prison time, Soral was subsequently ordered to pay legal fees and fines totaling thousands of Swiss francs.
Soral’s sentencing came after he called Macherel a “fat lesbian,” criticized her work as a “queer activist” and said she was “unhinged” in a social media video, according to Swiss public broadcaster RTS.
Pascal Junod, a lawyer for Soral, mockingly blasted the conviction for a “crime of opinion” in an email to The Associated Press. He said the case aimed to probe whether a person had “sinned against the dogmas of single thought.”
Soral will appeal to Swiss federal court and “if necessary” to the European Court of Human Rights, his lawyer added.
This conviction was not the first time Soral has gotten into trouble over his words as he was previously and repeatedly convicted in France for denying the Holocaust, which is a crime in France. He was sentenced to jail time in 2019 over the denials.
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It’s not free speech when speech that offends is prohibited. It sounds like the guy is a jerk, but being a jerk shouldn’t be illegal. This sounds like Orwellian thought crimes.
Free speach dies a little more each day
My only question - is she a fat lesbian?
But we have to spend billions to make sure Putin doesn’t invade and take over these “free” countries.
Is she a fat lesbian or isn’t she? If she is, than he only spoke the truth. If not than he’s a liar. What ever happened to “stick and stones..”. I realize this is Europe but places here are not too far behind in whackyness.
So the LGBTxyx people have really thin skin and love seeing straight people put in jail because their feelings are hurt? Wow. And they wonder why a lot of society thinks the gay/queer/trans have mental problems. Maybe they should just accept the concept that they aren’t special. Just my opinion.
Same question. The answer to that is what matters. Imho.
She is a calorie-impacted individual. Gravity might also have an impact.
What if the woman in question is, in fact a fat lesbian?
Are factual statements now seen as hate speech?
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Gravitationally challenged practitioner of an alternate lifestyle.
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Gravitationally challenged practitioner of an alternate lifestyle.
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Correction...She is a Fat “UGLY” Lesbian.
LOL! 🤣
Paging William Tell. Paging William Tell. Pleas bring your cross bow.
Yes! there’s a limit to the despot’s power!
When the oppressed looks round in vain for justice,
When his sore burden may no more be borne,
With fearless heart he makes appeal to Heaven,
And thence brings down his everlasting rights,
Which there abide, inalienably his,
And indestructible as are the stars.
Nature’s primeval state returns again,
Where man stands hostile to his fellow-man;
And if all other means shall fail his need,
One last resource remains—his own good sword.
Our dearest treasures call to us for aid
Against the oppressor’s violence; we stand
For country, home, for wives, for children here!
ALL (clashing their swords).
Here stand we for our homes, our wives, and children.
From Wilhelm Tell by Friedrich Schiller
Well, in 60 days he’ll be out of jail, but she’ll still be …what he alleged.
Well…ain’t she…?
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