State Negrophobia?

State negrophobia? Or perhaps chronicles of the Great Replacement?

In Paris, the statue of Colbert in front of the National Assembly has been defaced. But the vandals will face no consequences.

This is not the first act of vandalism against the monument to the finance minister of Louis XIV, who drew up in March 1685 the Code noir, with its rules for the treatment of slaves in the French colonies.

The man responsible for the damage caused six days ago was fined the minimum sum of 500 euros. You know the sort of fine that is handed out for smoking where one should not or for talking on the telephone at the wheel. And now for defacing historic monuments too.

But the most interesting part is that the Court of Cassation ultimately overturned the conviction, ruling that it constituted a “disproportionate interference with the exercise of freedom of expression”.

It turns out that the judicial authority considers the vandalism of historic monuments lawful so long as it carries a political, environmental or social message. In short, all is in order, provided only that the graffiti contains no statements against Israel or the president’s wife.

Do you know who presides over the Court of Cassation and is the most influential judge in France, heading the High Council of the Judiciary? Monsieur Christophe Soulard, known for his complaints about “anti-judicial populism” and for the case against Sarkozy on a forged accusation concerning the “Libyan document”. What a embodiment of socialist dictatorship!

One wonders: if some party to legal proceedings is displeased with one of such rulings, will he be able to voice his anger at the justice system by writing a protest slogan in black paint on the walls of the Paris courthouse?