Here is another shocker, but we have come to expect them. Far-Right Senator Stéphane Ravier, Marseille, France, is back in court, over his “crime of opinion.” He made a tweet dated January 11, 2022, about the murder of an 18-year-old young man in the Paris region by a 62-year-old Senegalese national, with the comment: “Théo, 18, murdered yesterday by a Senegalese” #ClayeSouilly. Immigration is killing the youth of France.” While that seems reasonable enough as an opinion, and can be backed up with statistics, the watch dogs went after him, and now he has to face the race hate charge, from a law with the effect of silencing dissent.
“Of course, what he said is to be deplored by all conformists and socialist internationalists, but is he wrong?
Note also the use of the empty smear term “far right” to describe Ravier. Anyone the establishment wants you to hate is “far right.”
“Marseille: Stéphane Ravier to go back to court on March 9 for discriminatory remarks,” translated from “Marseille : Stéphane Ravier renvoyé en correctionnelle le 9 mars pour des propos discriminatoires,” La Provence, March 2, 2023:
After his two appearances for having described Samia Ghali as “Point G. of Marseille,” which had resulted in a conviction followed by a release on appeal, a new judicial appointment awaits the far-right senator Stéphane Ravier. On March 9, the former RN executive who spent time in the Zemmour camp is indeed summoned before the Marseille criminal court. The trial was initially set for September 28 before being postponed.
In question, a tweet dated January 11, 2022 echoing a sordid news item, the murder of an 18-year-old young man in the Paris region by a 62-year-old Senegalese national. The next day, Stéphane Ravier hastened to publish the photo of the victim accompanied by his own comment: “Théo, 18, murdered yesterday by a Senegalese” #ClayeSouilly. Immigration is killing the youth of France.”
Outraged by this “nauseous” position, the international league against racism and anti-Semitism (Licra) and the human rights league (LDH) immediately filed a complaint for “provocation to discrimination, hatred or violence.” A procedure validated by the prosecution, which considered that this tweet contained “allegations or imputations undermining the honor or the consideration of a group of people, in this case migrants, because of their origin or their membership or their non-affiliation to an ethnic group, nation, race or religion.”
By publishing this tweet, “the elected official is not content to react to a current event but wishes to underline the nationality of its author and to associate all people with an immigrant background,” deplores Me Alain Lothe, who intends to become a civil party for the Maison des potes. “This practice of recovering certain dramas is not new for Stéphane Ravier,” he recalls.
Recently, relatives of Marie Bélen, an anthropology student victim of a heinous crime in the Marseille metro, said they were “wounded, shocked, disgusted” by the recovery of the death of the young woman by the senator on his social media…
For his part, Stéphane Ravier, in bad shape politically since his departure at the wrong time at Reconquest, a formation swept away in the presidential and legislative elections by his former friends from the RN, takes responsibility for his words. He denounced a “crime of opinion.”