Polanski Released

The Ligue du Sud (League of the South) is a new political group headed by the mayor of Orange Jacques Bompard, who has been closely associated with Philippe de Villiers and his MPF party. Its name would seem to indicate that it sees itself as a French counterpart to the patriotic Italian Northern League. The Ligue du Sud issues communiqués on current events, and has entered its own candidates in next June's regional elections. This communiqué is posted at Novopress:

Roman Polanski has just been released on bail by the Federal Criminal Tribunal of Switzerland. The filmmaker, it will be recalled, is refusing the extradition ordered by the Americans in the case of statutory rape.

Actress Mathilde Seigner, Polanski's sister-in-law, attributes this release, in great measure, to the actions of Nicolas Sarkozy. She declared: "Nicolas Sarkozy was super. He strongly supported him. The president was very useful."

In what France are we living today? On what grounds can a French president meddle into an affair that concerns the American justice system and a filmmaker living in Switzerland? Was it for this that a majority of Frenchmen gave him power?

The fact is that in this case we find the same active solidarity between members of the same world-wide upper class, be it political, financial or cultural, as we do in the Frédéric Mitterrand affair.

Meanwhile, in France, crime continues to increase...

Those who read French may be interested in more information on Jacques Bompard (below) and his Ligue du Sud, which has recently signed an agreement with the Bloc Identitaire (Identitarian movement). This combined movement will be presenting candidates in the PACA region, i.e., Provence, Alpes-Maritime, Côte-d'Azur in June. They have been fighting the building of mosques, supporting the Swiss opposition to minarets, defending themselves from attacks by Jean-Marie Le Pen, and calling for the return to Algeria of any Algerian who is not happy in France. Click here for their website.

Their agenda is what I would call moderately anti-Islamic, since they do not seem to be calling for the removal of Islam from French territory or the repatriation of most (if not all) Muslims from France. It appears as if they accept the notion of "moderate Muslims", under French control.

More, as time goes on...