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The suggestion that a
French President, who is of second generation Hungarian
Jewish origin may be an (admittedly), unlikely candidate to
receive the accolade of the most nationalist head of state,
will doubtless seem controversial to the many adherents of
the old style nationalist parties across Europe, who have
regrettably inherited and furthermore institutionalised some
degree of anti-Semitism.
However the BNP looks forward, not backward and looks beyond
such blinkered vision and while acknowledging that President
Nicolas Sarkozy was elected on a populist patriotic
nationalist platform at the expense of the BNP’s friends in
Le Pen’s Front National, there is no doubt that Le
President is continuing to deliver the goods to the long
suffering voters of France.
Yesterday the no-nonsense
President announced new measures to deal with repeat sex
offenders in response to a high-level paedophile scandal.
Mr Sarkozy said a secure
hospital would be built to detain molesters. In future, he
added, offenders would not be released until doctors had
decided they were no longer dangerous.
The President’s moves follow an admission by a French prison
doctor that he prescribed Viagra to a serial child molester
accused of attacking a boy after his release.
The doctor told police he had not been given access to the
criminal records of the man, who had told him he wanted
relationships with women.
President Sarkozy said the government wanted to draw
conclusions from an 'unacceptable situation which has
greatly shocked the French'.
He added that 'everything must be done to make sure this
won't happen again'.
Left unsupervised
The alleged aggressor, Francis Evrard, was a convicted
paedophile who had spent most of the past 30 years behind
bars.
Yet within weeks of his release in early July, the
61-year-old had been left unsupervised.
Speaking after meeting senior ministers, Mr Sarkozy said
that in future sex offenders would have to complete their
sentences. Evrard had served 18 years of a 27-year term.
Mr Sarkozy added that serving a full term would not
necessarily mean freedom. Sex offenders still regarded as a
threat could be detained in a secure hospital to be built in
Lyon.
Under certain circumstances, Mr Sarkozy said, they would be
allowed to leave the hospital. They would be tagged,
and some may be chemically
castrated.
Evrard, 61, was found with a five-year-old boy within a few
hours of the boy's abduction, police say.
He was located the help of a new nationwide alert system
that makes intense use of radio and television announcements
as well as public notices at train stations and on highways.
The boy was abducted in a garage in the northern town of
Roubaix on 15 August.
Before the emergency cabinet meeting, Mr Sarkozy met the
boy's father and grandfather.
Magistrates and health professionals complain that a lack of
resources means medical treatment and monitoring procedures
for released offenders are not carried out effectively.
One to watch
President Sarkozy is definitely one to watch. As all of
Europe faces the common enemy of militant Islam; the scourge
of Marxist-liberalism; the interference of the unelected
European Commission and the widespread decline of an
industrial economic base, it remains to be seen whether
Sarkozy’s actions are merely headline grabbing window
dressing or genuine action to rescue a nation under threat
from within and without. How France responds to these issues
could set the scene for replication across all of Europe,
including the UK.
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