The old fundamentalist pastor of the parish of St. Nicolas du Chardonnet in Paris was released Tuesday. Father Xavier Beauvais was prosecuted for having launched “There’s good Banania, there’s no good Taubira” during a demonstration. The facts took place October 20, 2013 during a protest against the “Christianophobia” to call the movement Civitas.
The clergyman prosecuted for racially insulting risked a fine of 3,000 euros. The prosecutor announced his intention to appeal.
The accused explained he meant by this slogan oppose the reference to the family posed for him Banania, to the “destruction of the family element” what for her Taubira law on gay marriage.
In cassock on trial, he had argued that, having no computer or mobile phone, do not read newspapers, do not watch TV, he did not know the racist connotations of the old slogan of the powdered chocolate brand.
The judges ruled that the Abbe Beauvais had known “the time when the offending slogan was not the subject of any controversy and was associated with a popular product in almost all French households. ”
For them it was therefore not “necessarily informed” that “the wording used is not only criticized in recent years by several associations because of its colonialist overtones and stereotypes she would convey racist but banned from a judgment of the Court of Appeal of Versailles of 19 May 2011 “.
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