A 2011 monologue on the firebombing of Charlie Hebdo's offices. The speaker argues that parts of the Muslim population supported the arson, that both Muslim communities and the French public are easily manipulated, and that France is drifting toward restrictions on free speech similar to Algeria and some African countries.
Hello. This week, the offices of Charlie Hebdo were torched with an incendiary bomb. And a huge number of Muslims identify with this. So I'm not going to rush the justice system. I'm not going to say that it was Islamists who did it. But it's enough for me to see that it was mostly Muslims who identified with this act. And I've noticed something absolutely extraordinary. How easy it is these days to manipulate and lead people by the nose and to get a part of the population living in France boiling over. In fact, it's very simple. All it takes is a drawing, a caricature, and then 2 liters of gasoline, and then they immediately catch fire. However, I've seen, if I'm just talking about insults to Islam, I've seen a very, very serious one that went completely unnoticed. Uh, it's shown people shouting Allah Akbar. Who are going to announce, let's say, a purely Islamic profession of faith in the process of sodomizing an old man in the desert. I'm talking about a cated office. Not too long ago, I haven't seen a single Muslim in France feel offended or insulted by such an act. Can I give you a second one? Uh, not too long ago, in a theater in Paris, there was. He insults any of these prophets and a direct insult to Muslims. I haven't seen a single Muslim move. Now, Charlie Hebdo comes out with a title that's a little bit provocative for them, and then suddenly, boom, it goes up in flames. So I'm saying that they are easily manipulated. And of course, you French people are, too. Otherwise you wouldn't be in the. You're in. You wouldn't have voted consistently and continuously for 40 years for parties that, one after the other, sold you your country, your sovereignty, and they put you in the. You're in today. So you, too, are manipulable. But I'm talking about them today, and I can see how easy it is to manipulate them. So a drawing, and then two liters of drawings together. So that was the first part. The second part of this video is about freedom of expression in France. You say, in order to defend Charlie Hebdo, that you are committed to absolute and total freedom of expression. However, that. That is not true at all. You are not credible when a French person talks about freedom of expression. I am sorry. I do not believe it. It is not credible at all in your country. In 2008 alone, there were 350 convictions for comments, just for comments, for people who said something. And I am not even Talking about the number of people who have been prosecuted on various grounds just for having said something. Today there's not a single person in France who speaks publicly, whether they are a comedian, a non political person, or someone else who has not already been at least prosecuted, if not convicted for having said something. These can be remarks that shock people who are anti racist, others who are anti Semitic, others who are anti homophobic, others who are. I don't know what this is creating a climate of intellectual terror in France today that prevents people from expressing themselves. And then the first terrorist in this is the state. It is the state that instead of defending freedom of expression, uses the courts to prosecute thousands of people each year for having said something. And ah, I'm going to be clear. The people of Charlie Eddow, before, even before what they had written, which I don't care about, but completely before their last issue, were already considered as and jerks. Now freedom of expression. But it is exactly about the freedom of and jerks to exist, to speak, to come and say things that disturb. That's what it's all about. I come from a country where you can be convicted for your words, but for details. In France too, you can be convicted for details. But what I wanted to say is that in Algeria, where I come from, you can be convicted for any act or any statement you make. And there are a lot of acts and statements that are subject to the law, much more than in Europe. That's why I feel very bad when I see Europeans following this path and then gradually adding year after year, incriminating evidence that will be used in the courts, which will be used to blame people who have made the mistake of speaking out on certain subjects. I don't want to. I don't want to one day because I spent a plane ticket to come to that side of the Mediterranean. I don't want you to cancel my plane ticket by mimicking exactly what's happening on the other side. So what's happening in your country today is that thanks to massive immigration from Africa and the Maghreb, you are gradually starting to resemble African countries. I'm sorry for you, but that's what you're going to look like. That is to say, you are gradually taking the limits of freedom of expression that exist in African countries which are naturally starting to fit in with your sensibilities and your news as well. You see how easily Charlie Hebda was wiped out. What other newspaper would dare to follow the same path tomorrow? There you go. So today there will be case law and then journalists will know their limits in any case on this subject.
