The diversity that France is so intent on celebrating is turning into the forcible silencing of dissenting views.
“A third of close protections concern people who have criticized Islam, according to the police,” translated from “Un tiers des protections rapprochées concerne des personnes ayant critiqué l’islam, selon la police,” Valeurs Actuelles, February 2, 2022:
They now live outside of society. According to information from the Protection Service (SDLP), attached to the National Police, reported by our colleagues from Le Point this Wednesday, February 2, a third of police protections are linked to an Islamist threat. These people, forced to be protected, have made comments that are critical, hostile, or ironic of Islam, Islamism or Muslims, and unfortunately bear the brunt of it.
Le Point reports that 35 men and women, “French or foreign,” residing in France, are under close protection organized by the SDLP. Among them are many journalists.
This is the case, for example, of the former director of Charlie Hebdo, Philippe Val. The latter has been protected since 2006, classified Uclat 2 (which means high risk), indicates Le Point. At his home would hide an armored room equipped with a line and an alert walkie-talkie. The journalist and writer, Zineb El Rhazoui, lives away from her relatives in the face of the Islamist threat for which she is paying the price on the Internet.
Ophélie Meunier recently placed under protection
As for Mila, the young woman lives “bunkerized.” A new life, which came about after a criticism of Islam in 2020 on social networks, in which Mila has “the impression of being dead while remaining of this world,” as she confided to Le Point in January 2021. The imam of Drancy, Hassen Chalghoumi, is for his part forced to go out with a bulletproof vest and to live apart from his family. He was the subject of a real fatwa on the part of the Islamic State by pleading for a peaceful Islam, recalls Le Point.
After the broadcast on M6 of the “Zone Interdite” investigation into Islamism in several cities – notably in Marseille, Trappes and Roubaix – the presenter Ophélie Meunier is also under police protection after having been the target of threats. This is also the case of the Roubaix jurist, Amine Elbahi, who testified in this documentary with his face uncovered.