A French minister has said she is taking legal action against an unidentified man who was filmed lighting a cigarette from a memorial flame at a major Paris war monument.
The video of a man stooping to light a cigarette from the fire at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier under the Arc de Triomphe, before walking calmly away watched by tourists, caused indignation when it was widely shared on social media.
“I am filing a case immediately with the Paris state prosecutors so that this man will be found and sanctions imposed to make an example of him,” Patricia Miralles, the minister for veterans and remembrance, wrote on X.
What law does it actually break though? And no matter what, who exactly did his action hurt? What got damaged?
Fuck the law. Is it in the spirit if the thing?
Im not sure it isnt. This monument is to dead (so presumably mostly not recent, and in water hot enough to cook em) french (and again, traditionally big on tobacco, mostly not recent, check again a couple wars from now) soldiers (show me a soldier who doesn’t smoke.).
I feel like they would be down to offer you a light.
Feelings got hurt.
Yeah, while I agree that it is a shitty thing to do, if there is a law against that, I would be surprised.
Or maybe the normal rubber band stuff like in Germany: Erregung öffentlichen Ärgernisses, which translate to raising public anger. Which means anything that is majorally frowned upon but not otherwise already against the law, but enough people (of the right sort) are complaining.
shitty thing to do
I dunno. I feel like the people it’s in honor of, in the conditions they’re being honored for, maybe would’ve been down. Maybe some of them would’ve done it themselves.
This might be the most French news I’ve seen since the firefighters got in on riots
