French girl raped and murdered by repeat offender
We tend to think of the Scandinavian and Anglophone countries—particularly Britain—as the most criminally lax in dealing with violent criminals. But here is a horror story from the continent that suggests that France is just as bad. After a 17 year old male in the south of France confessed to raping a 15 year old girl and served four months in prison, he was, while awaiting trial, released from jail and admitted into a rural co-ed boarding school, where he proceeded to rape, murder, and burn a 13 year old girl, Agnès Marin.
Agnès Marin
The French, of course, are “shocked” about it (shock being the
standard liberal response to obvious realities that liberals refuse to recognize). But …
Matthieu Bonduelle of France’s SM magistrates union said dealing with such a case was complex.
“Today one cannot, by law, tell a headmaster that a given pupil is under investigation for rape. Why? Because of the sworn secrecy of an ongoing inquiry and the presumption of innocence,” he said.
“Should they have shut this youth up for the rest of his days, removed him from the school system? In other words put him in a situation where the risk of repeat offending would be even higher? It’s a complex question.”
Remember the name Matthieu Bonduelle, because what he said is the essence of liberal evil. In the mind of this monster, to separate from society a person who is a manifest threat to society, poses an even greater risk of a repeat offense than letting him back into society. Why? Because, as liberals see it, people are naturally good and society’s institutions—in this case prisons—make people bad. As liberals see it, a society that imprisons rapists and murderers is cruel and inhumane; a society that releases rapists and murderers from prison to rape and kill again is humane and virtuous, because, even though it is unfortunate and “shocking” if more people are raped and killed, society, by believing in the essential goodness of the killer and giving him another chance, has shown that its heart is in the right place.
If there were in the West conservatives or traditionalists worthy of the name, what would they say about a case like this? They would say that they reject to its bottom-most roots our modern liberal society which places the well-being and possible rehabilitation of violent criminals over the safety of the innocent. They would say that when a person announces by his behavior that he is a grave threat to society, he must be separated from society forever.
Here is the article, from the Telegraph:
France in shock over rape and murder of 13-year old girl
France is in shock over the rape and murder of a 13-year old girl whose alleged teenager killer was admitted to a high school despite awaiting trial for another rape case.
Grief has turned to anger at how the unnamed 17-year old was granted admission to the private boarding school in Chambon-sur-Lignon, central-southeastern France, given that he had spent four months in prison last year over the rape of another fellow pupil in another region.
Police say the teenager had admitted to “killing, raping and burning” Agnès Marin after luring her to a forest near the Cévenol international school in the Haute-Loire region, where they both studied, to go mushroom picking.
“She was killed in an extremely violent and brutal fashion,” Jean-Yves Coquillat, the Clermont-Ferrand prosecutor said, adding only that he was armed with several “objects.”
Yet he was an outwardly well-behaved, quiet pupil. “He presented no danger, but psychiatry is not an exact science,” he said.
The case turned political when Prime Minister François Fillon called a special cabinet meeting on Monday to discuss “possible failings in the chain of justice” and Michel Mercier, the justice minister, ordered an inquiry to ascertain whether any “fault” had been committed by judicial or school authorities.
The adolescent was awaiting trial for the rape of a 15-year former fellow pupil from his native village of Nages-et-Solorgues in the southern Gard region. “The circumstances were identical, except the victim (of the first attack) remained alive,” said the prosecutor.
“From what my daughter told me, I felt that this would happen,” said the survivor’s mother.
And yet psychiatrists concluded that the boy posed no threat to those around him and could be “reinserted” and “readapted” to normal life. He was released from detention ahead of his trial, weaned off a drug addiction and obliged to receive regular psychiatric treatment.
His parents, a teacher and hospital administrator, moved to another region and after receiving refusals from several schools, he was admitted to the Cévenol international school for children from 11 to 18, specialising in giving problem students “a second chance.”
On Monday, its headmaster Philip Bauwens said: “We knew he had had problems with the law, but didn’t know the nature of those problems.”
“The school managers discovered the frightening truth at the same time as Agnès’ parents,” said deputy-head, Jean-Michel Hieaux. “That we had taken in a young man charged with rape.” “I am dumbfounded that through slackness and irresponsibility a system can allow a particularly violent youth to be welcomed to a mixed boarding school out in the open countryside,” he said.
But the prosecutor said the school “received him in full awareness of the facts (about his past).”
Frédéric Marin, Agnès’ father, said: “School heads told us before witnesses that they were aware of his past. It was known since June he had a run-in with another girl.” “This is a pointless death that could have been avoided. Error is human but we paid a very high price,” said her mother Paola. [LA replies: Isn’t that a bizarrely cool and abstract way to talk about the savage rape and murder of your daughter? Clearly Agnès’s parents are good liberals, good Europeans. A continent of such parents will not rise up in rebellion against a system that allows rapists into private schools.]
An investigation is under way into how much the school knew.
Matthieu Bonduelle of France’s SM magistrates union said dealing with such a case was complex.
“Today one cannot, by law, tell a headmaster that a given pupil is under investigation for rape. Why? Because of the sworn secrecy of an ongoing inquiry and the presumption of innocence,” he said.
“Should they have shut this youth up for the rest of his days, removed him from the school system? In other words put him in a situation where the risk of repeat offending would be even higher? It’s a complex question.”
Pierre Moscovici, campaign director for Socialist presidential candidate François Hollande, said: “When a minor is in this kind of situation, you need closed centres.”
Justice Minister Michel Mercier said too much hung on psychological profiles of such individuals. “Sometimes a single expert opinion can be fallible. We need to better organise evaluating the degree of danger (of an individual) at least in the most serious cases.” [LA replies: This is like saying, “We need to learn how to think like human beings.” But if you don’t know how to think like human beings, if your entire belief system and your entire society militate against thinking like human beings, how do you learn? If the salt has lost its saltiness, wherewith shall it be salted?]
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Alan A. writes:
The article tells us:
[H]e was admitted to the Cévenol international school for children from 11 to 18, specialising in giving problem students “a second chance.”
It could be that the girl had put her parents through the wringer prior to this outrage. And if that is the case it could explain her parents’ seemingly bizarrely dispassionate response, “Error is human but we paid a very high price.” Yeah, I can imagine how a completely out-of-control, pretty 13-year-old girl could make her parents wish they were dead.
Aditya B. writes:
The Telegraph link led me to another heinous story involving another teenager who raped a thirteen year old girl during the riots last August in Britain, a country as demented as France.
This story contains what you eloquently and succinctly describe as “the essence of evil” as well. The teenage rapist is described as “vulnerable and troubled.” A neighbour even speculates that his parents’ “strictness” could have led to an adolescent rebellion and falling in with bad company. Presumably, it is such abstract things as strictness, rebellion, and bad company that led a “vulnerable and troubled” teenager to drag a 13-year old girl into an alleyway and rape her at knife-point.
This is liberalism’s defense for all evil committed by their favored victim groups. All evil is excused and explained by the most hideous apologies.
This leads me to wonder about the rapist’s race. Here is the description of his family:
His mother, described as a “devoutly religious nurse” who sobbed in court during his appearance, told the Daily Mail: “We can’t quite believe this. We are a good family with Christian values. He is not from a broken home.”
A neighbour said: “The family are completely shocked by what has happened and feel very ashamed. The parents are hard-working members of a close-knit community and tried to do the best for their son. They were very strict with him—perhaps that’s why he rebelled and fell in with bad company.”
“Devoutly religious nurse.” “Good family with Christian values.” “Hard-working members of a close-knit community.” The mother also describes her family as a ” good Christian family” in an interview with the Daily Mail. I don’t think white people, or most white people at any rate, talk that way anymore in the UK. That, coupled with the complete absence of photographs of the teenager’s mother leads me to believe that they could be Afro-Caribbean.
Which brings us back to the juvenile horror in France. Do you think this boy is black or Arab? Could that explain the extra-ordinary effort to return this young savage back to society? Could this situation be the result of liberal madness and blindness about race?
LA replies:
We simply don’t know the ethnicity of the 17 year old rapist/murderer in France. It’s entirely possible—I’d say it’s more than a 50 percent likelihood—that he’s black or Muslim, but he also could be white.
However, I agree with you that that the rapist’s family in Britain sounds Afro-Caribbean. The media would not describe a white British family as “hard-working members of a close-knit community.” Those are code words for racial minorities.
November 22
Beth M. writes:
This is the sort of thing that led me to believe that the black boy in Prince George’s County who was adopted by Seventh Day Adventists and killed the elderly white lady who had been like a grandmother to him [see this, this, and this] was already in big trouble BEFORE he was sent to the boarding school for troubled youth. The schools are expensive (and I’ll bet the French school with “international” in the name was VERY pricey) and you have NO IDEA how screwed up your troubled child’s new classmates will be. You would have to be absolutely at wit’s end to send a child to such a place. It is the last stop before Juvenile Hall.
James P. writes:
According to the Telegraph story, the murderer is the son of “a teacher and hospital administrator” and other stories say he had gotten in trouble for computer hacking. That doesn’t really sound like he’s black or Arab to me.
Posted by Lawrence Auster at November 21, 2011 07:01 PM | Send