In a sequence of the show filmed in Montargis, we can see a couple verbally attacking this caregiver, telling her to “go to the doghouse”.
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The case was brought to the attention of the Minister of Justice. Divine Kinkela, a black nursing assistant who was the victim of racism in Montargis (Loiret), filed two complaints against her neighbors, franceinfo and France Bleu Orléans learned from her lawyer, Frank Berton, confirming information from the ParisianFriday, June 28. The first complaint was filed in Montargis (Loiret), for “public provocation to discrimination, aggravated violence and moral harassment”. The second was addressed to the senior investigating judge in Montargis and concerns “public insults of a racial nature”.
In a sequence from the program “Envoyé Spécial”, broadcast Thursday June 20, on the legislative campaign in Montargis, a white couple of supporters of the National Rally (RN) insults their neighbor, Divine Kinkela. The man, questioned after he had just followed the president of the RN, Jordan Bardella, during a trip to a farm, accuses “Mustapha, whatever you want” of “not respecting the customs of France”.
Then, his partner, a civil servant at the Montargis court, takes on the nursing assistant who is leaving her house. “There you are again? Were you invited? No! You get out! I left public housing because of people like youshe says. We do what we want, we’re at home. Go to the kennel!”
The Minister of Justice, Eric Dupond-Moretti, has requested a report with a view to obtaining the “suspension” of this official. “Hate will never have a place in our courts”he reacted on the social network “A suspension order was issued by the Minister of Justice on 24 June on the basis of reports from the heads of the Orléans Court of Appeal concerning the civil servant assigned to the Montargis court whose racist remarks had caused a stir on 20 June.”specified the Ministry of Justice.
The Montargis public prosecutor’s office had announced that it had taken up the same facts: “words and behavior observed which may be criminalized as ‘public and non-public insults of a racial nature, public incitement to discrimination and violence without racial incapacity'”described the public prosecutor of Montargis, Jean-Cédric Gaux, in a press release.
Several left-wing and environmentalist figures went to Montargis on Friday to support the caregiver. “We can clearly see what the rise of the National Rally is leading to in our country. And, even though we are just a few days away from the legislative elections, even though there is a very strong risk of victory for the extreme right, we do not want a country in which racist insults, (…) violence are increasing”said senator and spokesman for the French Communist Party Ian Brossat.