The far-right writer Alain Soral was sentenced Tuesday, May 31 to a fine of 12,000 euros for racial insult against Farida Belghoul, an ex-teacher who had launched in 2013 a boycott movement of the school which she accused of teach a '
gender theory
'.
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Farida Belghoul had filed a complaint in July 2018 after the publication on Youtube of a video in which Alain Bonnet dit Soral answered questions by telephone.
To an Internet user who questioned him about “
infiltrators
” in his organization Equality and Reconciliation, he had notably declared: “
it will also allow me to say that we have had traitors of all stripes... huh... but many, I am sorry to deplore, of North Africans, there is nevertheless a propensity for betrayal among North Africans, no doubt a past of colonial submission
”.
He then notably cited the name of Farida
Belghoul, who had approached the far-right polemicist in 2013 and 2014.
North African origin, to which (she) is referred as if this sufficed to define her as a person to assign her to a degrading place
”.
Alain Soral was also ordered to pay 2,000 euros in damages and 2,000 euros in legal costs.
His lawyer did not respond to AFP.
"School withdrawal day"
A figure in the 1984 Beurs march who had become close to the far right, Farida Belghoul had launched the “
Day of withdrawal from school
” movement against the supposed teaching of a “
gender theory
” at school, supposed to deny sexual difference.
The "
ABCDs of equality
", launched in the fall of 2014 in 600 volunteer classes to deconstruct boy-girl stereotypes, were abandoned in June 2015, after several months of controversy led in particular by the far right and opponents of the same-sex marriage, in a France torn between supporters of marriage for all and the Manif pour tous.
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Alain Soral, 63, has been convicted twenty times, notably for incitement to hatred and contestation of crimes against humanity.
In April, he was sentenced in Switzerland to three months in prison for homophobic attacks but he opposed this decision and must be retried.
