France General Discussion

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lol

After a whole blow nowadays, since we heard that Michèle Alliot-Marie, French Minister of Foreign Affairs (who had already proposed the services of French police in Tunisia...in order to help the repression to be less tough, and on the same realm, the French Minister of Interior had affirmatively responded to a tear gas order from the Tunisian govt on the 12th of January...2 days before Ben Ali falls, when repression was becoming quite big, and Foreign Office didn't oppose it), had spent her holidays in...Tunisia...2 weeks after the problems had begun there, and there, her and her husband...who is also a minister, benefited of a plane from someone who could be close of the 'Ben Ali clan', that same Foreign Office Minister who during January also made an official travel in Egypt qualifying it of tolerant democracy, today, we just learn that Fillon, PM, had spent his holidays...in Egypt, and there benefited of a plane and accommodations...from the Egyptian govt.

Oh dear, France...

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Oh wow.

http://www.rtl.fr/actualites/international/article/casse-toi-pauvre-con-ne-plait-pas-au-quai-d-orsay-7660981275

A French teacher working in the French High-School of Cairo has been seen, apparently when shot by media, handing a big sign 'Casse-toi pauvre con' during some of the protests in Cairo, 'Casse-toi pauvre con' was one the of slogans from the big protests in France in 2009 against lots of problems in general and notably against Sarkozy, notably spread by the Parti de Gauche (Mélenchon), and which means kinda 'Piss off bloody jerk', directed toward Sarkozy, and which where some words that Sarkozy himself told to a guy who told him some unpleasant things one day, but too bad, he was shot and wasn't aware of this, this became famous in France.

And then what happened here? The French Office immediately repatriated this French teacher in France, he has been threatened to be degraded in his function and he has to stay in France till his retirement (next July) while his family lives in Cairo. Official reason: a functionary has a 'duty of speech reserve' and has to 'stay correct'.

Ironically, about Sarkozy's last TV intervention of which I saw some samples afterward because in the same time there was Mubarak who was about to deliver his last speech, I thought kinda 'damn, both guys are as disconnected', one is a better communicant though. Indeed, people here when they see what happens in Arab world think 'why not here??'. Well, what happened in 2009 was kinda in the same kind of trends to an extent, a global anger toward a lot of things and a big personalization, but well, to an extent only, there isn't issues in the same depths as there indeed. But still, all of this could have an impact on the radicalism of people here. Radicalism on the far-right, people fearing all these Muslims that could suddenly turn into 'Islamists!!' now that they don't have our cool dictators to keep them under control which could contribute to make grow the 'anti-Islam speeches', and on the far-left, with giving more hope to people dreaming about something like that here, in a country which never ceased to fantasize on its revolution and of which I always thought it could maybe want to live something like that again, which in term of people could play in favor of Mélenchon, and/or Royal to an extent.

That being said, the defeat of protests against pension reforms has been a big blow symbolically, but the fantasy might be still vivid here. Oh, a big musical about it is about to come this year or next one.

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Sarkozy had the good idea to put this very nervous and arrogant young guy that he had put as French ambassador in Iraq, in order to be very active and to...get the trade contracts!, in Tunisia. It didn't take a long time for the guy to screw up, yesterday, during a press conference with Tunisian press, when asked about all the f**ked things of our Foreign Affairs Minister, he quite brutally and nervously and arrogantly said to journalists that all of this wasn't the point, kinda telling them they were stupid and they didn't get the point that he wanted to implement a 'new philosophy'.

Today, about 500 people demonstrated in front of French embassy in Tunis, indeed asking the guy to resign, and very well pointing out all the arrogance of the representative of France.

'Congrats' France, you f**ked up on the whole line.

Oh, and, amusingly enough, there is something relative to my preceding post here, not sure whether they had heard about that story of a French teacher in Cairo, but I've seen a sign in the protest which said to this glorious ambassador named Boris Boillon:

Casse-toi pauvre Boillon! (globalization is really lovely sometimes)

Though, look, we have improved, France felt the need to publicly say 'We won't send repressive equipment to Libya and Bahrain!'.

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Hortefeux always had a 'Grévin' face. ^^

(for non French, Grévin is an equivalent of Tusaud)

Hortefeux, quand yen a un ça va, c'est quand yen a plusieurs qu'il y a des problèmes. ^^