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Another brilliant move by Macron. /s

A woman has been arrested for allegedly comparing French President Emmanuel Macron to “trash” on social media, in the latest crackdown on free speech in the supposed home of liberté in Europe.

Last Friday, Valérie, a middle-aged woman in the Saint-Martin-lez-Tatinghem commune of the Calais region of France, was greeted at her home by three police officers, who arrested her for supposedly insulting French President Macron on Facebook under the controversial criminal code that criminalises spreading “contempt of public officials”. . . .

Source Article (12ft.io)

Another brilliant move by Macron. /s >A woman has been arrested for allegedly comparing French President Emmanuel Macron to “trash” on social media, in the latest crackdown on free speech in the supposed home of liberté in Europe. >Last Friday, Valérie, a middle-aged woman in the Saint-Martin-lez-Tatinghem commune of the Calais region of France, was greeted at her home by three police officers, who arrested her for supposedly insulting French President Macron on Facebook under the controversial criminal code that criminalises spreading “contempt of public officials”. . . . [Source Article](https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.breitbart.com%2Feurope%2F2023%2F03%2F31%2Fwoman-arrested-for-calling-president-macron-trash-on-social-media%2F)

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Too bad all the Maquis have passed. They'd have ambushed the bastard gendarmes.

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Every public official is contemptible. That's their very nature. She shouldn't be arrested for stating the truth, but then this is clown world.

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But President Macron really is trash. What the hell...

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Insulting the dear leader is forbidden in North Korea and France.

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... and Canada and USA and ...

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That doesn't sound like a very "free" country.

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And if such a law was passed in the US, the police would do the same thing.

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Constitution Trumps Federal Law. The new law would be found unconstitutional, just as their attempts at 2A limiting laws.