The affair had marked the electoral campaign for the June 2021 departmental elections in Loiret. National Rally Candidate in the canton of Fleury les AubraisPascal Auger had published on twitter several remarks with a racist connotation. The RN had withdrawn his nomination
while keeping it for her partner Angéline Gay, with whom Pascal Auger eventually got 17% of the vote. He was judged this Thursday by the Orleans Criminal Courtafter a complaint filed by SOS Racisme.
Pascal Auger wants “wind turbines if the migrants arrive by parachute”
2 writings caught the court’s attention. Responding to an article by far-right activist Renaud Camus entitled “Stop wind turbines and migrants!“, Pascal Auger had posted: “Why, if the migrants arrive by parachute…“In the second tweet, he explained that France”became an African colony“. He has since deleted his twitter account.
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Aged 66 today, it is sheepish that he presented himself at the helm. Former head of the sports department of the city of St Jean-de-Braye, former basketball coach in Fleury-les-Aubrais, Ormes and Saran, he claims not to be racist. “I coached Togolese and Senegalese, as well as players who were doing Ramadanhe explains, I’ve never had a problem with them, what people reproach me for today, it makes them smile.“
Because it is the humor that Pascal Auger claims. “Misplaced humorhe confesses, I got carried away, I regret these inappropriate remarks.” But when prosecutor Eric Sandjivy request : “Do you realize that your tweet on wind turbines amounts to saying: “we really want wind turbines if it can kill migrants”?“, the defendant finds it difficult to assume: “No, no, there’s no likelihood of that happening, migrants don’t arrive by parachute, I just wanted to draw attention to the fact that we don’t control migration policy.“
The prosecutor makes the link with the Grégoire de Fournas case
For the prosecutor,It would be wrong to take these remarks lightly, which by dint of trivialization, creates a racist atmosphere, which even contaminates the National Assembly, which had to exclude one of its members last week.” Allusion to the RN deputy of GirondeGregory of Fournas, expelled from the National Assembly for 2 weeks
after his sentence pronounced in the hemicycle while a LFI deputy, black-skinned, evoked a boat of migrants: “let them return to Africa!“
The judges followed the prosecutor’s submissions: Pascal Auger was fined 1,000 euros for incitement to racial hatred. During the reading of the judgment, the president of the court specified that this judgment was rendered “in the name of the French people” and cited several articles of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen.