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France ‘double standards’: Prison for mosque offence, acquittal for similar church antics

Prosecutor in France demands three-four months of suspended sentence and around $2,000 fine for an ex-Femen activist, who imitated abortion in a Paris church. A similar act in a French mosque resulted …More
Prosecutor in France demands three-four months of suspended sentence and around $2,000 fine for an ex-Femen activist, who imitated abortion in a Paris church. A similar act in a French mosque resulted in graver sentences for offenders.
Eloïse Bouton, 31, then a Femen member, was topless when she got inside the Catholic Madeleine Church in Paris a few days before Christmas 2013. She simulated an abortion by carrying to the altar pieces of a calf’s liver, symbolically representing the fetus. The act culminated in Bouton urinating on the altar’s steps.
Bouton, who quit Femen after the incident, citing “personal reasons,” appeared in a court in Paris to face trial for "indecent exposure," on Wednesday.
The prosecutor requested three to four months of suspended sentence and a 1,500-euro fine (around $1,920).
Bouton’s lawyer insists that what his defendant did was a political protest and not an act of public exhibition, and asked for the international law on freedom of expression to be applied …More
Abramo
Let us hope that this is more than politics... I do not remember Fillon as a big Christian when he was prime-minister of France. Like our bishops, politicians may become Christians after they leave power, but in the case of Fillon I would be happy to be proven wrong.
Angy
@Abramo : he, as politician, is not afraid of speaking about the christian faith of his country. That is what matters.
Abramo
However, the problem are not the Moslems, the problem are the judges who are not Moslems, but hate the Church.
Angy
indeed, double standards.
The (former) french Prime Minister, François Fillon, had the courage to say this:
www.freestatevoice.com.au/…/716-hats-off-to…More
indeed, double standards.
The (former) french Prime Minister, François Fillon, had the courage to say this:

www.freestatevoice.com.au/…/716-hats-off-to…