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
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
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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.
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…
The (former) french Prime Minister, François Fillon, had the courage to say this:
www.freestatevoice.com.au/…/716-hats-off-to…