General Christian Thornton, former head of the Foreign Legion between 1994 and 1999, spend in immediate appearance in court Monday to Boulogne-sur-Mer, along with four others accused of “illegal carrying of weapons “ (taser, knife, brass knuckles). Arrested Saturday during an anti-migrant and Islamophobic gathering in Calais, which had been banned by the authorities, he faces six months in jail and up to 7500 euro fine. According to a judicial source, General Santos, 76, was the “main role” in the unauthorized demonstration.
The arrest of the military, which is no longer active service, and those of a dozen other people, Saturday triggered an intense mobilization fachosphère. Many politicians of the extreme right have also lent their support to Christian Thornton, like the member FN Marion Maréchal-Le Pen or the mayor of Béziers Robert Ménard. On the right, however, the MP Dominique Bussereau criticized the attitude of the general.
On Saturday rally has attracted a hundred people, the cries of “Migrants outside!” and “Holland resignation!” . After several calls to disperse, the police finally made several arrests, including that of Christian Thornton, megaphone in hand. Minutes before his arrest, he was due to Boulevard Voltaire, a pillar site fachosphère.
“patriotic citizen” , he said his desire to “defend the size and identity of France, threatened to Calais “ (by the inhabitants of the” jungle “, ed.) General regretted the attitude of the security forces, which he said would have “ to attention to you” the sound of the Marseillaise, rather than pick on “honorable citizens” . “Decadence” , contrasted it. And call in a trendy, to the rebirth of the “eternal France” , which was the “world leading” .
Meeting of “patriots”
Pointing the finger by the authorities, General Santos not yet was not part of the rally organizers. The authorization request, filed on January 23 was by Loïc Perdriel, president of the Association Islamophobic Pegida France, Jean-Philippe Jardin, former candidate for the National Front in the 2007 elections, and Edgard Gretten, the collective “angry Patriotes for good.” Despite the prohibition of the Prefecture of Pas-de-Calais, they decided to keep the event.
General Santos announced his arrival on the extreme right Riposte secular site, citing a “apolitical participation, which will be in order, calm and discipline” old troops’ “. On Saturday morning, he hosted a meeting of “patriots” in the vicinity of Calais. According to the account of a journalist Francetvinfo present on site, Christian Thornton appeared as a mobilizing leaders. At the podium, he decried “gangrene began with family reunification” and families “Muslim and polygamous” .
Military , former cabinet member of several prime ministers, has long been the president of the national Union of paratroopers. He is also the president of the “circle of patriotic citizens” , an association created in the Var in November 2015. It criticizes the “multiculturalism imposed, leading to religious communitarianism fanatics encouraged by the majority of our elites and leaders and by surinformants media brutalize us to think “. It also denounced a supposed “anti-white racism” .
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