Fanny Truchelut - Update

About a year ago I reported on an incident in the department of les Vosges, in eastern France, where the owner of a bed-and-breakfast type of hostel attempted to enforce French laws regulating the separation of Church and State when she asked two female Muslim boarders to remove their headscarves in the public rooms, i.e., the large TV rooms and dining halls of the hostel.

A lawsuit initiated by MRAP was filed against the owners, Fanny Truchelut and her husband. Philippe de Villiers immediately offered his legal services. It has now been announced that the trial begins on October 2.

An e-mail that I received via Terre et Peuple (Land and People), a nationalist website, relates the series of misfortunes that have befallen Fanny since the incident a year ago.

Whatever one thinks of the wisdom of her act, it was surely something that could have been settled out of court. At the time, many felt that MRAP had set the whole thing up. If this is true, then there is no way they would settle out of court.

Here is the text of the e-mail, in which Fanny, speaking to whomever will listen, describes her situation:

Hello,

It's been one year - August 11, 2006 - since my story began. You followed the beginning and you supported me.

The initial shock lasted 3 months. That is now a thing of the past.

I have remained silent on this matter, awaiting word on whether or not there would be a trial.

I have remained silent also because this affair has caused me to stop my work at the hostel, as of the end of 2006.

I have remained silent also because my husband left me, and I have started divorce proceedings. I have partially moved out.

Today I am being sued for 3 infractions in accordance with 3 articles of law.

Note: here the numbers of the articles of law are enumerated.

These infractions concern:

A refusal to provide a good or a service,

1) due to the origin, whether belonging to it or not belonging to it, of an ethnicity or a determined nationality, on grounds that two women were wearing the veil

2) due to one's belonging, or not belonging, to a determined race, on grounds that two women were wearing the veil

3) due to one's belonging, or not belonging, to a determined religion, on grounds that two women were wearing the veil

I am in great need, first of all, of online information. I no longer have daily access to the family computer. It could be a gift or a sale at a modest price.

I'm going to have financial needs, the lawyers' fees are being assumed by the MPF of Philippe de Villiers, but the related fees are my responsibility. I already owe 1000 euros today.

If you cannot help me financially, send me, have someone send me, e-mails informing the court of our resistance and of our determination to have laws passed on this question.

If you know people in the region, inform them, perhaps they can come to the trial.

Cordially,

Fanny Truchelut

P.S. I am 54 and I have 4 children.

If anyone is interested in contacting her, the following is provided:

fanny.truchelut@gmail.com

Readers of French can check out the story at Islamisation or at Bafweb.