{"id":194495,"date":"2019-09-08T11:13:30","date_gmt":"2019-09-08T11:13:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=194495"},"modified":"2019-09-11T04:59:05","modified_gmt":"2019-09-11T04:59:05","slug":"french-identitarians-to-be-fined-and-jailed-for-opposing-illegal-immigration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=194495","title":{"rendered":"French Identitarians to be Jailed for Opposing Illegal Immigration"},"content":{"rendered":"

Guillaume Durocher \u2013 The Unz Review Sept 3, 2019<\/strong><\/h1>\n
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Prison for three non-violent illegal immigration protesters. GI activists: Damien Lef\u00e8vre, Cl\u00e9ment Galant, and Romain Espino. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n

The pro-European and anti-immigration movement Generation Identity (GI) has achieved a worldwide notoriety through its often spectacular actions, whether by occupying EU and government buildings or manning their own ship<\/strong><\/span><\/a> to halt migrant smugglers in the Mediterranean. Such actions are not without risk however.<\/span><\/p>\n

In spring 2018, French GI activists \u2013 frustrated by the French government\u2019s inability or unwillingness to get the migrant crisis under control and prevent illegal immigration into their country \u2013 decided to take matters into their own hands with symbolic but effective nonviolent action.<\/span><\/p>\n

GI blocked the Col de l\u2019\u00c9chelle<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/span>, an Alpine mountain pass near the border with Italy, through which migrant crossings were known to occur. The activists deployed banners, fences, and even helicopters to prevent the migrants from entering France.<\/span><\/p>\n

One activist explained that the goal was \u201cto show the public authorities that, with a bit of will and fairly modest means, it is possible to regain control of our borders and prevent the illegals from entering our country.\u201d The action succeeded in receiving substantial media coverage and putting pressure on the French government to fulfill its responsibilities.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Alpine protest. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n

GI argues that Europe needs to embrace the \u201cNo Way\u201d Australian model<\/a><\/strong><\/span> against illegal immigration: that anyone who tries to illegally go to Australia by sea will simply be sent back. As General Angus Campbell, Commander of Operation Sovereign Borders, explained: \u201cThere are no exceptions . . . If you come to Australia illegally by boat, there is no way<\/em> you will make Australia home.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Such a policy, GI argues, is the only way in which illegal migrant crossings, and the tragic deaths associated with them, can be eliminated. By contrast, the European Union adopted an insane policy whereby migrant boats \u201crescued\u201d just off the shores of Libya and Tunisia would be ferried directly to European ports. That sure made the people smugglers\u2019 job easier.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The nominal \u201cFrench State\u201d however is not kind to those Frenchmen who still have the strength and will to defend their homeland. Last week, three GI leaders \u2013 Damien Lef\u00e8vre, Cl\u00e9ment Galant, and Romain Espino \u2013 were sentenced<\/strong><\/span><\/a> to six months in prison and 2000 euros in fines for this action. The three men will also be deprived of civic rights for five years. The GI organization itself will have to pay 75,000 euros.<\/span><\/p>\n

According to the judges, GI usurped the public authorities\u2019 responsibilities and \u201cexercised an activity in conditions such as to create a confusion in public opinion concerning a governmental function.\u201d Thus, the Frenchmen will be punished for symbolically and nonviolently doing what the French government was failing to do.<\/span><\/p>\n

Galant was unfazed, declaring in a video<\/a><\/strong><\/span> in front of dozens of GI supporters: \u201cThis sentencing in no way affects our determination. We are ready to face all the risks, to take all the blows, to save our people and our civilization.\u201d Numerous nationalist and even conservative politicians have condemned the court\u2019s decision.<\/span><\/p>\n

For Michel Rousseau, spokesman for the open-borders activist organization Tous Migrant (\u201c[We Are] All Migrants\u201d), the punishment was not sufficiently severe however. He stated to the press: \u201cThe prosecutor did not prosecute the suspects on other grounds too: What about endangering others? What about incitement of racial hated?\u201d Lord knows how symbolically enforcing one\u2019s immigration laws is \u201cincitement of racial hatred.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The decision is all the more shocking in that the French State has punished actual, practical \u2013 not symbolic \u2013 illegal immigration enablers<\/em> with less severity. C\u00e9dric Herrou is an olive farmer who has reached superstardom among the globalist left for helping 150 immigrants illegally cross the Italian border.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The glamorous life of an open-borders lawbreaker: C\u00e9dric Herrou and a trophy migrant on the red carpet at the Cannes Film Festival. (You may enjoy other tragicomic pictures by searching for \u201cC\u00e9dric Herrou\u201d on Google Images.)<\/p><\/div>\n

Herrou was prosecuted and in August 2018 received a mere suspended sentence<\/em> of four months in prison, meaning he will serve no jail time unless found guilty of further illegal activity. Despite helping more people illegally enter the country since then, he continues to walk free. Instead, Herrou has enjoyed soft-ball interviews on the country\u2019s State-owned TV channels and was invited to the prestigious Cannes Film Festival.<\/span><\/p>\n

Support for illegal immigration runs deep in certain sectors of French society and the political-cultural elite. Politicians who merely enforce the law are heavily demonized as the television stations broadcast tearful images of illegals sent home. Lawbreakers like Herrou and Carola Rackete \u2013 a German sea captain who smuggled illegals into Italy \u2013 may face minor legal repercussions, but receive ample financial support and are hailed as heroes by certain sectors of society.<\/span><\/p>\n

The GI and Herrou cases raise questions about the impartiality the judges and their faithfulness to the law. Jean-Yves Le Gallou, an identitarian think-tanker whom I have previously interviewed for Unz<\/a><\/strong><\/span>, observed that the court\u2019s presiding judge, Isabelle Defarge, has publicly expressed pro-immigration positions.<\/span><\/p>\n

For Le Gallou, the French justice\u2019s system extensive support for censorship, soft line against illegal immigrant activists, and hard line against the Gilets-Jaunes<\/em> are deeply problematic. \u201cMore and more, the French feel that \u2018justice\u2019 is no longer rendered in their name, but for the sake of ideological and political prejudices, and foreign lobbies,\u201d he says.<\/span><\/p>\n

Le Gallou explains that there is a structural left-wing and globalist bias in the judiciary: \u201ca pro-immigration judicial or administrative magistrate can participate in and campaign within a pro-immigration organization and continue to act as a judge, even covering these topics. A less politically-correct magistrate must be absolutely quiet and very prudent in his sentences.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

As a result: \u201cToday, in France, one must use the expression \u2018justice system\u2019 only with scare quotes.\u201d Is there a solution? Le Gallou suggests an \u00e9puration<\/em> \u2013 a purge \u2013 of the judiciary may be necessary. The Republic resorted to such actions in 1883 and 1945, firing hundreds of normally independent judges, in order to consolidate \u2018republican values.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n

Perhaps a patriotic government will have to resort to such actions in the future. In the meantime, it will only be because of the heroic efforts of such brave Frenchmen as Damien Lef\u00e8vre, Cl\u00e9ment Galant, and Romain Espino, that the French nation and her laws will endure.<\/span><\/p>\n

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