Pierre Cassen is the founder of Riposte Laïque and a well-known Counterjihad activist in France. For more than a decade he and his partner Christine Tasin, the founder of Résistance Républicaine, have been stalwart leaders in resisting the Islamization of France. As a result, they have been the subjects of multiple prosecutions by the French state.

But now Mr. Cassen has revealed that there have been a number of instances of apparent extra-legal persecution against himself and Ms. Tasin. After the latest incident — the torching of his car — he decided it was time to record the following video as a sort of insurance policy against future “accidents”.

Many thanks to Oz-Rita for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:

Video transcript:

00:00 Hello everyone on this 8th March.

00:04 I will not address the ladies of Riposte Laïque to wish them a good

00:08 International Women’s Day. For me this kind of day should

00:12 be all year round; for the whole year men and women should love and complement each other,

00:16 should be well together, and we do not need an 8th March to decide on this.

00:20 No, I am going to address you for more serious reasons: Voilà,

00:25 early this morning, at 2am, I was called by firefighters

00:29 to the front of a small house where Christine Tasin and I regularly spend a few days a month,

00:33 and I was told that my car had burned up.

00:37 Some will say that there are 40,000 cars burnt each year, which means

00:41 100 per day and that this is a French specialty,

00:45 without doubt of the “Vladimirs” who amuse themselves at night because they are bored,

00:50 because society is not interested enough in them. Nevertheless, this affair disturbs me a little

00:54 for several reasons: firstly, in this small street

00:58 there were around 50 cars. Mine was among them,

01:02 and I’m probably very unlucky,

01:06 but mine was the only one burned up. So I have decided to use

01:10 this episode, this event, to inform you of a number of

01:15 intimidations, persecutions that

01:19 Christine Tasin and I have suffered for several years,

01:23 but had chosen until today to endure in silence for the most part.

01:27 The affair began in 2015.

01:31 In 2015 the public prosecutor of Paris, under orders from Bernard Cazeneuve (Interior Minister)

01:35 decided to investigate the operation of Riposte Laïque,

01:39 of which I am no longer the president as of October 2012,

01:44 to find out how Riposte Laïque actually functions, the stated objective:

01:48 “to prove that Pierre Cassen is still the President of Riposte Laïque”.

01:52 And, without being paranoid, I am obliged to note that from

01:56 that date an accumulation of facts

02:00 concerning me led me to ask some questions.

02:05 Firstly, a few weeks later,

02:09 during the night between a Sunday and a Monday in my

02:13 house, between 1am, when I get home, and 7am

02:17 when I wake up, I am the victim of a burglary

02:21 where people come in through a French door,

02:26 at the back of my house, and take only my computer

02:30 and my mobile phone. One might think that it is undoubtedly

02:34 “a youth” who did this. One might think this, and I admit it is

02:38 what I thought at the time. After this I am the victim of a

02:42 police raid, which was absolutely

02:46 in order, since it was ordered by a magistrate. They steal my

02:50 computer and mobile phone, which I had bought in replacement,

02:55 and obviously the police did not discover anything.

02:59 A few months later, I am the victim of

03:03 two events at my home a few weeks apart:

03:07 I find my car with a broken window and with

03:11 parts in the engine missing so that I cannot use it anymore,

03:15 and a few days later I find

03:20 the window of my kitchen broken, while it is

03:24 a double glazed window, so I find it broken.

03:28 I will not go back over the accident that happened

03:32 to Christine Tasin and me on the highway, where a

03:36 Bulgarian truck, driven at 130/kmh

03:40 by a person “who had fallen asleep at the wheel” — official version! — brutally

03:45 plowed into us, and where we escaped, miraculously,

03:49 a much more tragic outcome. So I continue:

03:53 in September 2017 something improbable happens to me

03:57 that the lawyers do not understand: I am tried again

04:01 three months after being released by the same court

04:05 in exactly the same case, and I learn that, without

04:10 having been summoned to this trial, I am sentenced to a three-month

04:14 suspended prison term. I will appeal;

04:18 I’m having a lot of difficulties, but I think that we will succeed, thanks to the efforts of

04:22 my lawyer and yours, because you have helped us a lot following

04:26 our earlier appeal. I think we will succeed in getting a retrial

04:30 by the end of June, but it’s not yet won. What else to tell you?

04:34 I occasionally practice sport shooting

04:39 and for this I made a request for permission

04:43 to keep type B weapons. To my great surprise

04:47 the president of the shooting club I go to,

04:51 next to my home, a very nice little club with nothing but good people,

04:55 told me that, following my request, he had received a phone call

04:59 from the prefecture and the General Information Services,

05:03 asking him a lot of questions and letting him know

05:08 that, given what I wrote, it would be very surprising if I were to

05:12 receive an authorisation to keep a weapon in my home.

05:16 So, if I understand it correctly, my pen is an obstacle to

05:20 my having a weapon I can use for training, maybe even use one day

05:24 to save my life.

05:28 48 hours ago, so just the very day before

05:32 the torching

05:36 of my car, I witnessed, still in this little house

05:40 where Christine Tasin and I go, a hair-raising scene.

05:45 I did not go out, I stayed in a corner of the house,

05:49 a police officer knocked and asked “Madame La Christine”

05:53 to open the door. I heard the whole conversation: He began by saying:

05:57 “I caught you in the act; you say that you

06:01 are domiciled in Paris with your lawyer, that henceforth

06:05 you practically do not live here any more… I pass a ‘flagrante delicto’,

06:10 you are at home, so you are lying!”

06:14 To tell you we had been there for two days and we were leaving the next day, but the policeman

06:18 has the gall to tell her that she is lying. The policeman takes the liberty of telling her that she

06:22 must follow him, and she must follow him immediately for an interrogation,

06:26 since — it seems — Christine Tasin had incited a crime; this is

06:30 yet a new offence with which they seem to have charged her.

06:35 It so happens that Christine has other obligations and is not available. The policeman

06:39 threatens her and tells her that he has instructions from the prosecutor,

06:43 and that he has the right to take her by force, and even to break down her door

06:47 to get in, if she refuses to open.

06:51 So: crass intimidation, which ends in… it’s so

06:55 grotesque that there is a burst of laughter, including, I confess finding it hard to

07:00 hold back; and finally, Christine, by discussing it,

07:04 gets an appointment in fifteen days to three weeks, when she will be

07:08 back, but nevertheless: a most disturbing scene, and so,

07:12 last night, 24 hours after this episode,

07:16 in the middle of 50 cars, it is only my car that catches fire.

07:21 I’m not paranoid; it’s quite possible that I am

07:25 very unlucky. It is quite possible

07:29 that all the episodes I’ve mentioned are just random.

07:33 It’s possible that many are random but not all,

07:37 but I decided, despite everything, to alert our friends,

07:41 because I think these are things that need to be known, especially in the context in which we

07:45 evolve, because it is not just any context:

07:50 the hunt on the re-infosphere is open. So-called

07:54 “Anti-racist” associations, the vultures of anti-racism still called

07:58 on the president of the republic for a hardening of the laws, with an appeal in

08:02 “Le Monde” [lefty paper]. We have the most repressive legislation in the world, and they are asking

08:06 for more repression. The President of the Republic,

08:10 Macron, has tabled the bill he promised

08:15 to the journalists, who are naturally delighted about the pretend

08:19 fake news, and now we know that a magistrate

08:23 will have the power to withdraw a text or to close a site,

08:27 within 48 hours, a true declaration of war,

08:31 and yesterday at the CRIF [council of French Jews] salon,

08:35 at the CRIF dinner, Macron permitted himself to say that he was declaring

08:40 war on Internet hatred.

08:44 “Declaring war on Internet hatred” when one accords a royal peace to

08:48 the disciples of Allah, to the Koran, to the texts that incite to violence,

08:52 to the death of all “infidels”, homosexuals,

08:56 Jews, Christians, all non-Muslims, that openly mocks

09:00 the whole world, even more so since at Riposte Laïque

09:05 and at Résistance Républicaine we have proven by

09:09 translating the report of an Israeli journalist that what

09:13 we have been saying for then years is right, that France is the No. 1 target of

09:17 Islamists to install a global caliphate, and that the Islamists

09:21 have a laugh, saying that in “secular” France they have absolutely all the means

09:25 to spread, to develop and to install a true

09:30 counter-society with the complicity of the French state.

09:34 It is in this context that I wanted to alert you.

09:38 Many friends — and I thank them — advise us, Christine and me,

09:42 to leave France, to go abroad in order to preserve our

09:46 lives, to preserve our security. I will not hide from you that

09:50 we do not exclude this possibility because, of course,

09:54 we must think about everything. It is not the decision we have taken so far.

09:59 To date we want to stay in France, we want to stay among our people, in the midst of

10:03 those we love; we want to stay in the midst

10:07 of those who love us, in the middle of our country which we cherish more than anything

10:11 in the world. We will see how things evolve. I just want to conclude

10:15 with this: If “an accident” should happen to us,

10:20 ask yourselves the right questions and ask yourselves if

10:24 it is really “an accident”. And I am counting on you

10:28 because I know you are fighters. You know the collaborators;

10:32 you know who is under all that, and I trust you

10:36 to give them change in their own money to their potential sponsors.