The investigation by prosecutors of Creteil for "public insults of a racial nature" will tell the prefect if senior executive Paul Girot de Langlade, 63, has indeed kept at Orly, July 31, the About that motivate the complaint filed the same day by a female security guard at the airport.
According to the complainant, Mr. Girot de Langlade had started on it the contents of his pockets after she was asked to empty the security checkpoint with rang. "We're where? It's like here in Africa", would he exclaimed, before declaring: "Anyway, there are only Blacks here." The firm denies
remarks and denounced a "manipulation". He acknowledged only having upset. In 2002, Mr. Girot de Langlade, then prefect of Vaucluse, had publicly declared his hostility to Travellers: "I have no particular affection for these people. They live in our hooks, rapine as everyone knows. "
Four years later, became Prefect of Indre-et-Loire, he felt: "There are too many (Traveller) to the department." The complaints filed against him had not resulted in a conviction for legal reasons.
Still: a senior representative of the state guarantor of republican values and social cohesion refers to "those people" about a category of the population, condemning the surplus estimating the excess is simply unacceptable. In 2007, the prefect Girot de Langlade had also been placed "out of context" after these words.
That the current regime has chosen a senior official with this profile to coordinate the States General of the Overseas appears at least as a blunder. The eagerness of the interior minister, Brice Hortefeux, to suspend him from his position after the opening of an investigation does not, moreover, without hypocrisy, prefect of the mission was almost complete after giving his report, July 30.
remains the context for the remarks attributed to Mr. Girot de Langlade: that of France, where dealing with a black employee does not just happen, where to be French, but not white skin continues to raise questions .
On 7 June, the mayor (SP) in Evry, Manuel Valls, did not hesitate to estimate that there are not enough "whites, white, of blancos" in a flea market in his town. Declaration more than problematic, again. The cabinet has given sociological afterwards Mr Valls only masks a very perilous and confusing which is not uncommon among the racial and social issues.
Le Monde, August 17, 2009
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