Posted on 08/06/2025 6:40:20 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
A 47-year-old Moroccan man has been arrested in Paris for lighting a cigarette using the Eternal Flame at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier under the Arc de Triomphe. French Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau confirmed the arrest calling the act “indecent and pathetic.” He stated that the man has been identified and taken into custody and admitted to lighting his cigarette from the sacred flame.
“I am filing a case immediately with the Paris state prosecutors so that this man will be found and sanctions imposed to make an example of him,” Patricia Miralles, the minister for veterans and remembrance, wrote on X. “You cannot ridicule French remembrance and get away with it.”“This flame does not light a cigarette, it burns for the sacrifice of millions of our soldiers,” said Miralles.“This is an insult to our dead, to our history and to our nation.”
The incident occurred on the evening of August 4 and was captured on video by a Latvian tourist, according to Le Figaro. The footage, which shows the man bending down to light a cigarette from the flame before walking away casually while surrounded by onlookers.
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(They don’t respect us.
They don’t respect our traditions.
They don’t respect our customs.
They don’t respect history.
They are not us.)
Ooh just like Barack Hussein Obama
CERTAIN HE IS MUSLIM
France will probably deport this piece of trash…to Britain.
On the other hand it’s just a cigarette.
They think we are suckers for being nice to them. (they are right in that sense I suppose)
a muslim could have thrown a little girl into the eternal flame and they wouldn’t have done anything.
I was thinking Nikki Haley.
So light the Muslim on fire and call it even.
you forgot our women, children, and sheep.
France tolerates no-go zones.
But disrespecting the tomb of the unknown soldier...Mon Dieu...Sacre Bleu...
Was his excuse “just arrived and doesn’t know the culture”?
That's true. Give him another cigarette ... and a blindfold.
Disrespect his religion, see what you get charged with
Ping!
The French take their no smoking laws seriously.
Absolutely true!
That’s also true
It was an intentional act of disrespect.
Every White French male within a ten foot radius should have beaten the living Shiite out of him… THEN have him arrested.
But…
Disrespectful
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