France: Threats against the “Manif pour Tous”

Nearly 200,000 people, according to the organizers, protested in Paris to “defend the traditional family” on October 16, 2016, on the initiative of the movement “Manif pour Tous” (Protest for All). The principal demands were the abrogation of the Taubira law (2013) that allows marriage between persons of the same sex in France, and its consequences, medically assisted procreation (MAP) and surrogacy. According to Cath-info, most of the slogans denounced “the destruction of the family” and “threats against educational liberties” along with the “spread of the gender theory.”

Six months before the presidential elections, the organizers also hoped to weigh on the polls. Among the possible candidates, only Jean-Frédéric Poisson (Christian-Democratic Party) and Nicolas Dupont-Aignan (Debout la France) made the trip to be there. National Front deputy Marion Maréchal-Le Pen also gave a speech.

All around the protest, invitations to commit terrorist attacks were placed on social networks before and after the October 16, 2016 gathering. In a press release published on their website on October 19, 2016, the organizers announced that they had filed a complaint, but to no avail.

The threats did not stop with words: those distributing flyers were pushed, insulted, and struck. According to the Russian international information TV channel RT on October 20, a family father was beat up before his children’s eyes by a dozen hooded extreme left-wing activists.

Those who protest, armed only with their rosaries, for the lives of unborn children know all too well these threats, these insults, and sometimes these blows. As a sign of charity, they add a decade of Ave’s for the hooded assailants as part of their prayers.

(sources: apic/cath-info/rt – DICI no.343 dated Oct. 28, 2016)

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