Gilles-William Goldnadel is a lawyer and essayist. Each week, he deciphers the news for FigaroVox.
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In a previous column, I showed that in our insane media society, an over-information of events which arranges the ideology in majesty coexists with occulted events which disturb it (massacres of white people in the USA in this case). This week, in a related field of ideas, I would like to show how a logorrheic society can at the same time remain silent in order to analyze an embarrassing event that it has not been able to conceal.
Six days ago, a woman was burned alive in public in Mérignac. This exceptional as well as emblematic immolation should have imposed unvarnished questioning on French society. On May 4, Chahinez, 31, mother of three children, was indeed immolated in the middle of the rue de Mérignac by her partner, Mounir Boutaa, a Franco-Algerian whom she had met in Algeria. This man is a dangerous recidivist delinquent, condemned seven times, in particular for violence with the use of a weapon, theft with destruction or degradation and violence on his spouse in the presence of a minor.
The enlightening article by Margaux d'Adhémar in Le Figaro reports information from a judicial source: “
She wanted to live in France like a Frenchwoman, but her husband did not agree.
He wanted an Algerian like in Algeria.
She wasn't very free, she wanted to go out to cafes, wear jeans, but he didn't want to.
He was a fairly authoritarian person, who clearly showed that he was not afraid of the police and the justice system
”.
The unfortunate Chahinez, who wanted to live as a Frenchwoman, died at the stake.
Gilles-William Goldnadel
The horrific drama is iconic: Violence against women, radical.
The cultural divide, yawning.
Judicial bankruptcy, total.
Through a weakening superego that creates resistance, no one first really dared to question the daily recurring question of failed immigration. Failed because of integration, itself failed because of massive immigration and forcibly imposed on the French people. We cannot say enough about the ravages of this racist anti-French anti-racism, which prepared the racization of minorities to come. Chahinez's husband is an import product of this contempt for French society. The unfortunate Chahinez, who wanted to live as a Frenchwoman, died at the stake.
It is this excessive and unsuccessful immigration, so often illegal, which every day brings misfortune to French people who are rooted as immigrants who are integrated or who aspire to be so.
Like Chahinez.
But who dared to say it so bluntly?
No one has really dared to question a judicial laxity doubled in the circumstance of an incredible dysfunction.
An improbably faulty indulgence which gave a violent repeat offender a new reprieve while adjusting his prison sentence.
The judicial authority did not make use of the prophylactic nature of the prison, but neither of the supervision of the one it had candidly decided to only put to the test.
Gilles-William Goldnadel
I recall that the executioner of Chahinez was sentenced on June 25, 2020 by the Bordeaux criminal court as part of an immediate appearance for violence against his partner.
He had been sentenced to 18 months in prison, half of which was suspended for two years.
This sentence was already lenient in view of the applicant's past as a delinquent.
But there is much worse: on March 15, 2021, Mounir had already tried to strangle his wife in a supermarket parking lot.
Saved at the last
minute
, she went to file a complaint immediately.
An investigation was opened but it did not lead to any arrest of the suspended prisoner.
The public prosecutor of Bordeaux indicated that he was "
untraceable
". Above all, we hadn't looked for him. Because, surrealist detail, we learned during the press conference that the following March 26 and April 14, the man had attended his summons to the integration and probation service responsible for monitoring his sentence. Who are we going to make believe that this is not a huge dysfunction, since it was open, and even the imperative duty of justice, to stop it on both occasions?
Under these conditions, thanks to the prosecution, we will make the non-use of a removal bracelet so far very little applied.
The sad proof is thus reported that not only the judicial authority did not make use of the prophylactic character of the prison, but not more of the surveillance of the one that it had decided with candor only to put to the test.
We will not have heard these ordinarily loud neofeminists.
However, it is not every day that one of their sisters is burned alive in public.
Gilles-William Goldnadel
Beyond the obvious failure as much as it is unfortunately customary of overwhelmed prosecution authorities, the question arises once again about the excessive indulgence enjoyed by some.
I maintain that beyond the political repugnance of many magistrates for the prison solution (
a fortiori
when this repugnance has resulted in the refusal to build prisons to house prisoners in decent conditions), there is a kind of ideology which shows more indulgence for the Other to the detriment of a necessary compassion for the suffering of his victim.
I maintain that the way in which the Sarah Halimi case was handled from its inception also participates in this ideology which I want to believe to be unconscious.
We excuse this truism: Without this indulgence, Mounir would still be locked up and Chahinez still alive.
She will have been the match that sets the pyre on fire.
Finally, we will not have heard these neofeminists ordinarily loud. However, it is not every day that one of their sisters is burned alive in public. We can bet that if his executioner had been a detestable white male, their sorority would have harmonized with their sonority. They are said to have taken to the streets to scream their anger and indignation. But a male of North African origin cannot quite embody hellish evil.
