Divine Kinkela was the victim of racist insults by supporters of the National Rally. The scene was filmed and broadcast as part of a report on the show Envoyé Spécial.
Divine Kinkela, a caregiver from Montargis, in Loiret, filed two complaints against her neighbors for “public insults of a racial nature” and “moral harassment”, after being targeted by insults of a racist nature, calling in particular on her to “go to the doghouse,” BFMTV learned this Friday, June 28, confirming information from Le Parisien. The scene was broadcast as part of a report on the show Correspondent.
In a report broadcast on June 20 and covering the campaign for the legislative elections in Loiret, a couple of RN sympathizers curse and insult their neighbor, Divine Kinkela, who says she has lived in France for 30 years.
The man, questioned after he had just followed the president of the RN Jordan Bardella during a trip to a farm, accused “the Mustapha, the whatever you want” of “not respecting the customs of France” .
Then his partner, whose face is blurred, attacks the caregiver who leaves her home. “There you are again? Were you invited? No! You get out! I left the public housing because of people like you,” she says. “We do what we want, we’re at home. Go to the doghouse!”
The civil servant suspended
The neighbor, who is a civil servant at the Montargis court, has been suspended, BFMTV learned this Friday from a source close to the case. The Minister of Justice, Éric Dupond-Moretti, had requested a report last Saturday with a view to obtaining the “suspension” of the alleged author of these insults who is a civil servant at the Montargis court, in Loiret.
The day before, the Montargis public prosecutor’s office had announced that it had taken charge of the same facts. The “words and behavior observed could be considered criminal offenses of public and non-public insults of a racial nature, public provocation to discrimination and violence without racial incapacity,” the Montargis public prosecutor, Jean-Cédric Gaux, had described in a press release.
According to the magistrate, the maximum penalty incurred is three years’ imprisonment and 45,000 euros for offenses and contraventions of this order.
A call to “create a barrier to the RN”
The sequence quickly went viral on social networks and aroused the indignation of part of the political class. This Friday, socialist and former Minister of Education Najat Vallaud-Belkacem and communist senator Ian Brossat visited the caregiver as part of the legislative campaign.
Alongside them, Divine Kinkela called for “a barrier to the RN” in the legislative elections, in front of the press.
“The RN cannot pass,” she said.
“If I stood up, it was so that we could put a barrier to the RN, because racism is not part of this world,” she added, denouncing “people (who) dare to insult us gratuitously and feel above the law.”
Vincent Vantighem with Juliette Desmonceaux
