Here are the facts as reported The Midi Dispatch : on the night of July 18 to 19, around 3 a.m., a young 19-year-old woman and her companion cross, boulevard Lazare Carnot, in the city center of Toulouse, the path of four minors, two girls and two boys, aged 14, 16 and 17. The latter take the couple to task, arguing that the young woman’s outfit is too immodest.
The boyfriend recriminates himself, defends his lover. Very quickly, the insults give way to blows, violent, with broken bottles. By the time help arrives, the young woman is disfigured by gaping wounds, “marked for life”, in the words of the regional daily.
Of course, following this kind of unbearable aggression, “the emotion is great”, according to the established terms. Of course, there will be voices everywhere – even among LFI – to say how scandalous these facts are. And after ? Afterwards, make no mistake about it: this attack, just like the murder of the young Shaïna four years ago, accomplish their effect of terror. And little by little, we let a violent minority impose its norm, a mixture of radical Islam, sexual frustration, and “street code”…
As long as elected officials refuse, out of angelism, cowardice or clientelism, to see what is happening in some of their streets, as long as some feminist activists refuse to make it a priority fight (out of ideology, or for fear of being classified in the wrong camp), in short… as long as the public conversation cannot find the right, firm, and calm words to analyze the situation opposite, we will abandon some of our daughters, of all religions and of all origins. They have everything to expect from the Republic, from its mores and its laws which normally apply to everyone.