On Saturday, public prosecutor Laurent de Caigny released a statement to the French press providing new details on the village-ball knife attack in Crépol in the south of France which left 16-year-old Thomas Perrotto dead and many other partygoers wounded. According to initial reports, two of the wounded were taken from the ball in critical condition. But, according to the prosecutor’s statement, three other victims were in fact left in critical condition and were in imminent danger of dying.
Whereas Thomas was stabbed in the heart, the three other victims appear to have been stabbed or slashed in the upper chest or neck area. Nine persons have been arrested in connection with the stabbings and, according to the prosecutor’s statement, as cited by the local newspaper the Dauphiné libéré, they risk being charged with the “murder… of the minor [Thomas] who died from a stab wound to the heart and attempted murder… of three victims who received stab wounds to the thorax”.
The “thorax” appears to be a euphemism which has been adopted by French authorities in order not to say neck. The Crépol attack is not an isolated incident, but in fact part of a long series of unprovoked knife attacks in France, which virtually always involve wounds to the “thorax”.
Thus, Dominique Bernard, the high school teacher who was killed in a knife attack in Arras in Northern France in October, was reportedly wounded in “the throat and the thorax”. Images filmed outside his school show him bleeding from the neck area. (See the below still.)
Two of Bernard’s colleagues, the gym teacher David Verhaeghe and the maintenance person Jacques Davoli, were also wounded in the throat or “thorax” in the Arras attack, but miraculously survived.
Just this past Sunday, an elderly couple was stabbed in a knife attack in a shopping centre in Amboise in the Loire Valley. Both victims were reportedly “wounded in the thorax”. The husband was left in critical condition.
Forensic details already showed that the killer of Samuel Paty, the history teacher who was killed in a knife attack at a school outside of Paris in 2020, likewise went for the neck. Thus, as recounted in Stéphane Simon’s Les derniers jours de Samuel Paty (The Last Days of Samuel Paty), the victim’s clothes were “full of holes at the level of the thorax and the shoulders”. Paty became a target for Islamic radicals after it became known that he had shown his students caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad in a civics class on freedom of expression. His assassin, Abdoullakh Anzorov, would go on to decapitate his lifeless body.
As reported in the daily Le Parisien, according to the public prosecutor, no fewer than nine victims or witnesses of the Crépol attack say they heard the assailants making “hostile remarks” about “whites”. As previously reported on the Daily Sceptic, according to partygoers interviewed by the Dauphiné libére, the assailants said that they were there to stab or kill “white people”.
In addition to the quotes in the traditional French media, a video clip circulating on social media appears to show one of the assailants calling a partygoer a “fucking gwer” (putain de gwer), before lunging in his direction. Gwer is a slur used by people of North African Arab descent for native French people. Other sources claim that the assailants said they were going to kill “céfran”. (See the interview with a local man here.) Cé-fran is an inversion of fran-çais and is another slang expression for native French.
The public prosecutor insists, however, that there is not sufficient basis for establishing a racist motive for the attack.
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Stop Press: French Government spokesman Olivier Véran has said the murder, which he admitted was the result of more than a “simple fight at a village dance”, could prove a “tipping point for French society” and warned civilians not to take the law into their own hands.
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Some discussion around this very topic occurred yesterday in the ‘hadaway an’shite thread.’ ( High energy bills).
Very much on a par with “racist buildings.” Obviously regional dialects have to be eliminated in the new normal in which populations will be reduced to some horrendous, amorphous, brownish blob speaking “english innit.”
The reality is that a very determined push is now being made to curb any regional identities and dialects reflecting and promoting those quirks have to go. Control the language, control the argument. Control our history, control both the present abd the future. We have a war on many fronts.
As Orwell said, “Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
Indeed.
I get called “duck” now and again – I don’t feel I am being compared to waterfowl.
“Ay up me duck”
My local tongue in the Midlands!
A visit to a pub in Kirby-in-Ashfield some 40 years ago, after I ordered a round of drinks the barmaid said “‘Ere you’re not from round ‘ere are you dook?” She was correct, the pub also had metered electric pumps with pint-to-line glasses, you don’t see many of those any more.
As for these idiotic “inclusion” edicts, they can shove it where the sun doesn’t shine.
I’ve been address as “cock” plenty of times too – I imagine there are sensitive flowers that would be horrified if they heard that.
”Haddaway an’ shite thread”! Haha…. Well we used to say ”hinny” just as much as ”pet”, both being unisex terms of endearment. I just feel like I’m sharing a planet with too many people who behave like they were dropped on their heads at birth. I’m of the opinion that if anyone is still dutifully wedded to any of the agendas being pushed by government, via the globalist-elite control freak shadow-lurkers, then by this point they’re a lost cause. Irreversible neuroplasticity has occurred, in that their brains have been so damaged due to the efficiency of the various MKUltra-type psyops, then rewired the wrong way as it tries to repair itself, that permanent damage has been done. That’s my theory and I’m sticking with it, lol!
Otherwise the alternative is to believe that a term of endearment said for centuries is suddenly deemed genuinely offensive. Honestly, universities are a place where critical thinking skills go to die. Stay well away. You’ll leave with less functioning neurons then when you went in.
Great picture. I’m afraid we’ve had too much Bob & Thelma in recent decades, and not enough Terry.
I completely agree with you, for once. It’s a great photo!
This is simply not true. Geordie women use that word when speaking to men as well. It has nothing to do with sex that its usage lies deep within Geordie spirituality which has a lot to do with old Norwegian. If you’re running a university you aren’t supposed to be an imbecile. Or maybe you are.
This may sound trivial, but when you add up all the trivial it amounts to a mountain of wokery that is about one thing only. Controlling all language to control all arguments.
I’ve got the boxed set of the Likely Lads.
Trying to imagine the script rewritten by wokists.
I can’t.
The days when men were men, women were women and comedy was funny.
Keep speaking your local dialect and if you don’t know it then read up on it. It is a mode of resistance that it difficult to fight. They can’t really say that Geordiespeak is the language of scumbags so as long as you stick to your guns they will have to back down. You can’t sit in some university in a town and tell the natives how to speak just think about the imposture and effrontery of it. To say that you will be fighting a losing battle is putting it mildly.
I still get called “My ‘ansome” and my lover by both men and women when I am in Cornwall and regularly called “hun” or “my lovely” at home in Cheshire / North Wales. Indeed, in the past couple of years, I have even been called “duck” and “love” by men when I have been in the Potteries / East Midlands and Yorkshire.
Should I take offence at being “belittled” by people speaking to me in such familiar (and sexist?) ways, or should I just think that they are colloquially chatting in the local vernacular? Anyone thinking the former is mentally deranged.
Obviously the move itself is outrageous and idiotic,
But another thing that annoys me enormously is the abysmal quality of the English in which these obnoxious people communicate their brain farts.
Embarrassing, considering it’s a sodding University…
The young lady who serves at the local cafe calls me “my lovely” but I strongly suspect that’s not a reflection on my looks.
I saw a poor man from Dudley being asked by a Bristolean bus driver to speak English. He was trying but the yam yam accent is hard to penetrate and full of great mystery, Even Scousers especially Scousers need to fight this fight. They will definitely try to keep it alive. If you have attenuated your accent then speak it more broadly than ever. Use a hundred year old words. We need to bring back the folksy feel.
Why not go the whole hog and advise calling them “persons”.
I am going full instinctive. No particular accent just seeing them as a predatory entity that sees me and everyone else as a predatory entity.. That is where you are really at. There is no going to work getting along and hoping they leave you alone. I would love that but they are predatory. That changes everything.
Orwell would have a field day!
So students and visitors are not affected.
Will Geordie students be directing questions during lectures prefaced by “Well pet” like “Well pet, how does Cartesian dualism impact gender equality?”
In the North East that I knew many years ago, ‘Pet’ wax used by men to women, and by women to men and women..how is it sexist? What about ‘Hinny’ or ‘Man’ equally used as terms of addressing somebody you don’t know. In Glasgow girls and women used to be addressed as ‘Hen’ and men as ‘son’ or ‘Jimmy’…these terms are very rarely heard now, more’s the pity.
Sexiest that’s b****s! The lady who lived next door to my outlaws used to call everyone male and female “Pet” it was lovely and with that geordie absolutely brilliant.
Might have been woke before her time?
Perhaps she was using it in the LGBTQIII+++ gender neutral sense.
Or maybe those brilliant academics in Newcastle University have not realised pets come in a minimum of two genders – male and female.
So it is gender neutral word.
Is a lesbian pussy a ‘pet’? Ask its owner but you might get a smack in the gob: ‘excuse me darlin’ can I call your pussy ‘pet’?’
Not sure how anyone can work out the gender of a pet which identifies as something other male or female. But those academics are very clever and might think of something.
Then of course there are children who think they are cats and dogs so surely it is OK to call them ‘pet’?