Death Threats Against the Right: Will France See Its Own Charlie Kirk Murder?

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Far-left intimidation grows in France, but authorities seem indifferent.

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The assassination of Charlie Kirk in the United States could well incite further acts of violence. In France, for several weeks now, prominent figures on the Right have been explicitly targeted by the far Left and subjected to death threats. Despite growing awareness that an attack could happen at any moment, the judicial authorities remain wilfully indifferent. Lacking any sense of responsibility, they are allowing these individuals to live in fear.

By coincidence, on the very day that we learned with horror and astonishment of the murder of Charlie Kirk on the Utah Valley campus, French essayists Dora Moutot and Marguerite Stern, known for their fight against the transgender lobby, announced the release of a video intended to alert their supporters to the dangers they have been facing for many months and the inaction of the authorities.

Since the publication of their essay Transmania, which exposes the delusions of transgender ideology and the deadly strategy of its supporters, the two women have been the target of repeated death threats and have found the slogan “a TERF (Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminist), a bullet” posted, tagged and shouted everywhere they go.

The death of Charlie Kirk—and moreover, the murky links between his murderer and the transgender community—deeply resonated with them. They denounce the transgender terrorism, which has proven its existence through several sordid killings.

On September 10th, Dora Moutot posted on X:

Just today, someone announced that we would be targeted with bullets on September 10th. But on the other side of the Atlantic, it was Charlie who took the bullets, shot down like a rabbit in front of the crowd during his conference by a mentally ill person whose brain was probably eaten away by wokeism. Charlie will never come back.

This news traumatises me. Really. I’m afraid that tomorrow it will be Marguerite or me.

For both women, it’s obvious: the same thing could happen in France. And it could happen all the more so because the authorities are in denial.

On September 11th, the day after Charlie Kirk’s death, Moutot and Stern published a video denouncing the Paris public prosecutor’s decision to dismiss a complaint they had filed against an ‘anti-fascist’ website that had explicitly threatened them with death. “In the open letter published by an anti-fascist website, these people admit to attempted murder. They claim to have burned down a building where Marguerite Stern was supposed to give a lecture, and they say they are coming armed to our rallies,” Dora Moutot told Le Figaro. However, the courts dismissed their complaint on the grounds that “the investigation did not identify the person who committed the offence.” The open letter is still online. They protested, but the prosecutor upheld the decision not to proceed—raising serious suspicions of political hostility in the decision.

Their lawyer, Louis Cailliez, decided to publicise this judicial scandal. The entire procedure was botched, not to say sabotaged. The names and numbers of the suspects given to the investigators contained altered letters or numbers, preventing any identification or prosecution. Cailliez pointed out no fewer than eleven glaring errors. He reported them to the public prosecutor’s office, which nevertheless refused to reverse its decision and closed the case.

Moutot and Stern are not the only ones affected. On X, calls for violence targeting French right-wing influencers have multiplied. They are explicit and unequivocal but do not seem to alarm the authorities.

Erik Tegnér, editor-in-chief of the conservative investigative magazine Frontières, has personally experienced this. Physically attacked while on holiday in Brittany with his fiancée during the summer, he now lives under repeated threats from a Moroccan Islamist who has been prosecuted and convicted but released. Interviewed on CNews in the days following Charlie Kirk’s death, he spoke with painfully restrained emotion about the constant danger he faces: “I’ve had to completely change my life, my habits, etc. I find myself in a situation where even my fiancée wants to move away, she’s completely paralysed,” he explained. The police themselves say they are concerned because the Moroccan is only required to report to the authorities once a week. The rest of the time, he is out of their control—ready to stab his target at any moment. At the beginning of October, Tegnér is preparing to publish an explosive, well-documented report on French mayors who are promoting Islamism, which is likely to cause him further trouble.

In the face of this distressing reality, the authorities remain in denial. In an attempt to bring about change, several conservative MPs, members of Identité Libertés (IdL), Marion Maréchal’s party, called on Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau to take action and protect these men and women who are risking their lives because they defend opinions considered heterodox and, as such, punishable by death in the eyes of the Left.

“Damien Rieu [a right-wing commentator] has requested protection from the Home Office, Dora Moutot and Marguerite Stern are under threat, and Erik Tegnér is being threatened by an Islamist who is still at large!” thundered MP Eddy Castermann, spokesman for IdL, on the conservative radio station Radio Courtoisie a few days ago.

To ensure their protection, Eddy Casterman and the two other Identité-Libertés MPs who co-signed the text, Thibaut Monnier and Anne Sicard, are calling for emergency measures. First and foremost: a reassessment of the threat by the Anti-Terrorism Coordination Unit (UCLAT). “Some of the individuals mentioned have already requested protection from the UCLAT. To date, despite being particularly exposed to a risk to their lives, none of them are receiving protection from the sub-directorate for the protection of persons,” the MPs explain.

At a time when the government is looking to make budget savings and is considering removing the police protection still enjoyed by certain ministers who left their official posts long ago, this would be an easy way to reallocate public funds. But for the moment, there is no indication that the threat is being taken seriously. Will someone have to die in France before anything is done?

Hélène de Lauzun is the Paris correspondent for The European Conservative. She studied at the École Normale Supérieure de Paris. She taught French literature and civilization at Harvard and received a Ph.D. in History from the Sorbonne. She is the author of Histoire de l’Autriche (Perrin, 2021).

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