Chaired by Sophie de Menthon, the Ethic movement issued the following
press
release last week:
“Ethic considers it its duty to launch
an alert against the process of paid denunciation, widely encouraged
by the government and in particular by Bercy.
This is not to deny
the serious problem of tax leakage and concealment, but spying on your neighbor to report him to the FISC or for any other reason is not tolerable and should not be rewarded.
A duty of RESISTANCE in the face of these procedures is imperative. ”
Who would not subscribe to this judgment, in effect "ethical", and all the more so since in the French historical imagination, the denunciation immediately evokes the dark times of the Occupation and the millions of anonymous letters denouncing Jews or resistance fighters? ?
Ethic is right, denouncement is detestable insofar as it is more a matter of jealousy, hatred or revenge than of justice.
Still, the case is more complicated than it seems.
Since
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