We reported on Wednesday that “Le Pen has seen a big change from two years ago, when she was ordered to undergo psychiatric tests by a court simply for posting photos to impress the truth about the dangers of the Islamic State upon the French public.” Now she is on trial for that very “offense.” What are the chances that France will defeat the jihad when it persecutes those who call attention to the atrocities done in its name? About nil.
Meanwhile, what does this “far-right” designation mean? For the establishment media and the political elites, it means, “We don’t like this person, and we don’t want you to like her, either.” That’s about it.
“French far-right leader Le Pen on trial over Islamic State tweets,” by Clara Wright and Joseph Schmid, AFP, February 9, 2021 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
PARIS — French far-right leader Marine Le Pen goes on trial Wednesday on charges she broke hate speech laws by tweeting pictures of Islamic State atrocities, a case she has slammed as a violation of free speech.
The trial comes as opinion polls show Le Pen will likely face off again against Emmanuel Macron in next year’s presidential contest, after her National Rally made its strongest showing ever in the 2017 vote.
Le Pen shared the gruesome images in December 2015, a few weeks after Islamic State group jihadists killed 130 people in attacks in Paris, in response to a journalist who drew a comparison between IS and her party.
One of the pictures showed the body of James Foley, an American journalist beheaded by the Islamist militants.
Another showed a man in an orange jumpsuit being run over by a tank, and the third a Jordanian pilot being burned alive in a cage.
“Daesh is this!” Le Pen wrote in a caption, using an Arabic acronym for IS.
Le Pen later deleted the picture of Foley after a request from his family, saying she had been unaware of his identity.
In 2018 a judge charged her as well as Gilbert Collard, a National Rally colleague who also tweeted the pictures, with circulating “violent messages that incite terrorism or pornography or seriously harm human dignity” and that can be viewed by a minor.
A trial was ordered last year but was delayed by the coronavirus pandemic.
The crime is punishable by up to three years in prison and a fine of 75,000 euros ($90,000).
Le Pen, a lawyer by training, has said she is the victim of a political witch-hunt — she refused an order to undergo psychiatric tests as part of the inquiry.
She was also stripped of her parliamentary immunity over the pictures.
“Marine Le Pen had no intention, nor even any awareness, of endangering any minor. She was responding to an attack, a provocation, by a journalist,” her lawyer David Dassa-Le Deist told AFP.
He accused prosecutors of “discrimination” by “deforming the spirit and the letter of the law… to limit Mrs Le Pen’s freedom of speech.”…
terry sullivan says
le pen is basically of the left
gravenimage says
How so?
wth009 says
So now it’s a crime to call out crimes and murders perpetrated by terrorists against the French?
mortimer says
For the woke, any criticism or exposure of Islamic terrorism is wrong. The pictures were ‘wrong’ because the Leftists could not fight the photographic evidence of brutal Islamic teachings.
Paul French says
Correct
Major William Martin RM says
ISLAM IS EVIL. DONT STOP.
Shovington says
What can you say about a mob of uninformed people following a pied piper into a socialist/marxist/communist nightmare. They just want to slaughter white christians and jews, and steal their hard work. Its difficult to watch other white leftists lying on the ground, exposing their stomachs for belly rubs from individuals and ideologies that won’t waste a second murdering and enslaving them. They don’t want reconciliation, they want to impose a mass genocide on whites and jews. They want to eradicate all traces of historical truths, and subject the masses to one ideology.
How can western white femenists ally themselves with Islam? Have they no idea that it is the most single minded patriarchal society on the planet? Why do leftists want to allow the eradication of free speech? Are they so naive to imagine that their speech won’t be purged by the same hate speech laws? Do they have no understanding of the brutal infighting and takeovers that enevitably takes place in all socialist/marxist/communist regimes? Its just a form of dictatorship, hidden amongst smiles and well wishers. The same well wishers will be your torturers, and you will confess to whatever they want you too, believe that !
Pray Le Pen is exonerated, and that she and her party are voted into French Parliament.
Paul French says
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peter says
It is good in one way . It is the best way to ensure Le Penn becomes the president of France . You cannot fool people for ever !
Mount Zion says
Of course they are concerned about a face off between Le Pen and Macron . It’s so ovvious they want her out of the way . The trial , who was delayed because of the pandemic , is all of a sudden reconsidered despite the Pandemic still raging . I think if she had the chance to become President , she could do some serious harm to the advancement of the islamic agenda in France .The judge who charged her with tweeting pictures of islamic state atrocities in my opinion is the one who should have undergone psychatric evaluation because all Le Pen ever did , was tweeting factual events .
Ade Fegan says
The truth is haram
DavidR says
Off with her head!
Myron J. Poltroonian says
I will make the assumption that you are either making a joke, or expressing your inner “Queen of Hearts”. If the former, as it’s in the land of “La Raisor”, its in poor taste. If you’re serious, “Up your ‘Alpha'”.
gravenimage says
I think this is sarcasm.
jca reid. says
So, it’s official now, telling the Truth about the most perverted, degenerate Political Ideology, dressed up as a “Religion”, is a Criminal Offence.
Phil Copson says
“….So, it’s official now, telling the Truth about the most perverted, degenerate Political Ideology, dressed up as a “Religion”, is a Criminal Offence….”
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The French Establishment are simply following sharia law, which dictates that anything which portrays islam in a negative light, is regarded as “blasphemy”.
(I don’t recall his name, but a couple of years ago a German author ? journalist ? was taken to court for publicising the links between the Mufti of Jerusalem and the Nazi government. The papers he brought to court to support his case were confiscated so that he couldn’t present evidence in his own defence, he wasn’t allowed pen and paper to make notes of the prosecution case against him, his supporters were intimidated by officials demanding their names and addresses, and the judge told him that he didn’t care whether what he said was true or not – he would be imprisoned if he repeated the “offence”.)
James Lincoln says
Phil Copson,
I believe that this is the case:
“The district court in Munich recently gave a German journalist, Michael Stürzenberger, a six-month suspended jail sentence for posting on his Facebook page a historical photo of the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin al-Husseini, shaking the hand of a senior Nazi official in Berlin in 1941. The prosecution accused Stürzenberger of “inciting hatred towards Islam” and “denigrating Islam” by publishing the photograph. The court found Stürzenberger guilty of “disseminating the propaganda of anti-constitutional organizations”. While the mutual admiration that once existed between al-Husseini and German Nazis is an undisputed historical fact, now evidently history is being rewritten by German courts. Stürzenberger has appealed the verdict.”
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/11205/germany-official-censorship
gravenimage says
Appalling, Phil and James. These days, the truth is no defense.
Beneath the Veil of Consciousness says
Sometimes the truth hurts. But this isn’t about the truth. It’s about delegitimizing Le Pen at the cost of the truth. Macron is a filthy self-serving whore. The French heroes of Tours, WWI and WWII must be spinning in their graves. Oh, how I hate Islam.
Westman says
This just what we saw running up to the 2016 elections – all the dirty tricks that could be mustered to eliminate the candidate who actually represents the will of the citizens instead of the political class. We have seen it repeatedly mustered against Geert Wilders in the Netherlands. A few Dutch politicians are waking up.
It’s a sad commentary that the major Western, no-longer-colonial powers, are without standing above third world politics because they are waist-deep in it themselves.
It’s happening everywhere, including the US Congress, where the political elites and grasping, sinking media are only a step away from making the transition from their visceral hate to physically eliminating the competition. One more generation and who knows…?
But I must have digressed, because what is happening to Le Pen and Trump is for the cause of unity, we’re told….
Anyone feeling warm and fuzzy about rancid politicians and their allied, coattail-sucking, media, yet?
Michael Copeland says
Not that long ago, after that grisly beheading of Samuel Paty, Macron was insisting on secular values and freedom of speech.
Sylvia Drummond says
France has become a totalitarian state
Lavéritétriomphera says
The absolutism of royal power is abolished in France for a long time ago, and the lettres de cachet (a letter under the sovereign’s seal, often authorizing imprisonment without trial) no longer exists.
gravenimage says
Yet there are still miscarriages of justice in France. You don’t necessarily need a monarchy for that.
Eleanor says
Gosh, this whole scenario sounds extremely familiar — just scratching my head to think where I’ve heard of something similar happening to someone else recently, but I can’t think who it is at the moment. I’m sure it will come to me in due course.
gravenimage says
+1
Check Burry says
Was he/she named Orwell?
James says
We mustn’t let truth prevail – leftist motto. Picture the three monkees (with berets on), hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil.
James says
Le Pen “has said she is the victim of a political witch-hunt.”
Been a lot of that going around.
gravenimage says
France: Le Pen goes on trial on charges she broke hate speech laws by tweeting pictures of Islamic State atrocities
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So opposing Islamic State atrocities is “hate”? Just sick.
James Lincoln says
Yes, gravenimage.
It doesn’t get any sicker than that…
Andrew says
I would understand her doing something wrong in these photos IF they were photo shopped, but they werent, she showed us what they did, in the name of islam, so now its seems that sharing the truth is an illegal act… Didnt Orwell say as much way back in 1948.
Marine Le Pen is NOT Far Right, shes just right, as in 100% correct…
Christopher Watson says
It’s strange that this ‘trial’ is going ahead since Macron is coming round to her way of thinking. Le Pen’s popularity is having no little influence either, no doubt. To call Le Pen ‘right wing’ is a misunderstanding: having read her manifesto she is middle-of-the-road or even a socialist in the best French tradition. She simply believes Islam is not right for France and has too much influence.
gravenimage says
Macron also wants to stay in power.
JohnTheRevelator says
This is just another form of deplatforming. The fascist Left is trying to find a way to remove Le Pen from office because they know she’s powerful and speaks for people opposed to Islam. They did the same to Trump and Geert Wilders.
It’s pretty disgusting that your fellow non-Muslims are working to defend an evil death cult but that’s the reality we’re stuck with and they need to be defeated before we can even deal with Islam. Expect voter fraud and other dirty tricks in France’s next election to prevent Le Pen from winning. Also now the Muslim population is large enough to swing elections so that’s working against her too.
The French people better wise up and vote in huge numbers for her, or they’ll just get more of the same BS they had for the last 4-5 yrs. As the Muslim population increases it’ll become even harder for them to save their country.
libertyORdeath says
Sadly not surprised. Free speech, common sense and morality have been on trial for years now.
Ronald Joseph Lorette says
Hi. You know a society has lost its way when The Women have to be Chilalrous and rescue the Men. Men have always stood up against their society being BRUTALIZED by an external evil force. Looks like they are too busy with Tour De France or playing Soccer. Two real tests of Manhood.
gravenimage says
I wish there were more good people standing against Jihad terror, male *and* female.
Kepha says
Here in the States, in their haste to prevent anything like Trump happening again, our political, media, and academic elites would like to end our First Amendment liberties. This is an existential crisis for our republic. I hope that France and the rest of Europe will quickly see their free speech rights restored.
gravenimage says
Me too, Kepha.
Norman Gardner says
Le Pen is only showing what ISIS has done. I do not understand the French, there was the massacre in Paris at the concert hall where 130 were murdered, the attacks on the newspaper, the killing of people in the Jewish market, the murder of an elderly Jewish woman by a radical Muslim, and he being exonerated, the slaying of a priest, Macron talking about getting rid of foreign Imans and secularizing France, and they go after Le Pen for showing pictures of atrocities to wake up the French public about the cancer in the country full of extremists. Good luck to Le Pen, hope she becomes the next French leader instead of that pussy Macron.
Yogi says
And they still harassing Her , never stop , maybe just because she ahead of Macron ,election is coming, maybe they want smash Her with Islam bulshit , it’s so sick , almost unbelievable..
Crusades Were Right says
If the choice is “far right” or dead wrong (and it is)…
Anon says
Those French court officials are insane. Don’t they realize that Islam is a mental disease?