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Mathieu Bock-Côté: "Fresnes, or the art of disqualifying critics"

2022-08-26T17:45:35.789Z


CHRONICLE - This controversy has propelled itself to the heart of public debate because it symbolizes the inversion of values ​​that ordinary mortals feel intimately when they think of the major developments of recent decades.


We understand the anger of ordinary mortals at the discovery of a karting session in Fresnes, at the end of July.

It symbolizes the laxity generally associated with the justice system, which not only hinders the work of the police, but seems hostile to the very idea of ​​repression.

Under the pretext that prison should not be an old-fashioned prison, we do everything to make it no longer look like prison.

We then plead for reintegration, forgetting that the person who has committed a crime should not only be excluded from society, but that he must pay for his actions, and that this is a matter of natural morality.

Another question arose: whose fault is it?

Who planned this activity, and what person in authority agreed to it?

Everyone passed the buck, with politicians going after the culprits as if they weren't in business themselves.

The difficulty in appointing a person in charge was nevertheless revealing: this transformation…

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Source: lefigaro

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