From 100 to 3,000 euros, the citizen contribution concerns all those tried for hate speech, whether anti-Semitic, racist or homophobic.
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Persons convicted in Haute-Vienne, guilty of minor offences, will now have to pay a citizen contribution to the Oradour-sur-Glane Memory Center. The announcement was made by the director of the Center on France Bleu Limousin.
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The Haute-Vienne public prosecutor’s office and the Memory Center signed a partnership this week. This citizen contribution of 100 to 3,000 euros concerns all people tried for hate speech, whether anti-Semitic, racist or homophobic. The idea is not only to punish but also to do prevention.
In addition to this financial contribution, the people concerned will also have to follow a one or two hour awareness session given by the director of the memory centre, Babeth Robert, who has already received three people in this context. The goal is to show that the words have a meaning: “Behind these words, there are discriminatory acts, anti-Semitism but not only. We also show them video testimonies of the victims of crimes committed in Oradour”, confides the director to France Bleu Limousin.
The village of Oradour-sur-Glane, 22 kilometers from Limoges, is known throughout the world for bearing the traces of the massacre of its population by a unit of the Waffen SS on June 10, 1944.