Crépol’s Tragedy: Village Brawl or Ethnic War?
22nd November 2023
A tragedy occurred a few days ago in the small town of Crépol, in the Drôme region of southern France. During a village ball, some individuals appeared, spreading panic and terror and causing the death of Thomas, a boy of 16. Today, journalists and politicians are engaged in a veritable battle of semantics. A mere news item or a major event? Ordinary violence or savagery? A brawl or an assault? Every word used to describe this episode has far-reaching consequences. Once again, the Left shines in its denial of reality concerning both the origin of the attackers and the nature of the victims.
After a few days of uncertainty about the exact sequence of events, the facts are gradually beginning to be reconstructed with precision. On the night of November 18, 300 to 400 young people gathered in the village hall of the small village of Crépol in the department of Drôme for “a simple dance party with a sound system, organised by the village’s festivities committee,” according to Martine Lagut, the mayor of the village.
A gang of individuals broke into the party and spread terror by attacking the participants with knives. A youngster of 16, Thomas, a member of the local rugby club, was killed. He died of a stab wound during his transfer to a hospital in Lyon. Two others are still in critical condition. In all, there were 17 victims.
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The accumulation of evidence against the killers—young people from North African immigrant families—has not prevented a number of left-wing columnists from persisting in their denial. One of them, on the set of BFM TV, refused to dramatise the situation and drew a parallel between the Crépol tragedy and the children’s novel La guerre des boutons (The War of the Buttons), recounting children’s fights in the countryside in days gone by—a terrifying blindness given the seriousness of the events. Others have tried to shift the blame by accusing the bouncer in charge of security at the entrance of the ball of possible “racial profiling.” In brief, the victims “had it coming.” The accusation of “recuperation,” as in the atrocious case of the murder of little Lola, was also repeated by journalists. Again on BFM TV, they condemned the allegedly far-right scenario of “these people from the suburbs that would go all the way to the countryside to attack these peaceful French people.” “It’s a gross exaggeration,” concluded the presenter on the set.