Here’s the story of one Muslim Afghan immigrant in France, as disturbing as they come, who managed to go from crime to crime and was allowed to roam free, until finally his “aggravated rape” of a 14-year-old French boy proved too much even for the French authorities, and now he is being held for trial. He’s likely to get off with just a fine of 600 euros, judging by recent cases for the same offense. His defense is obvious: he was unaware of French laws, being a recent immigrant who had only the most primitive command of the parley-voo. How can he be expected to know the French criminal code? Besides, in his country he did nothing wrong.
Plenty of perfectly respectable Afghan men keep young boys as catamites, in that quaint custom known as bachi bazi, or “boy play.” Bacha bazi has antecedents in ancient cultures throughout central Asia. However, the practice appeared in its modern form in the 19th century. This custom typically involves wealthy Afghans, often Pashtuns, who acquire young men or boys for the purposes of sexual entertainment and exploitation. Women are prohibited from working as dancers or entertainers in many parts of Afghanistan, and young boys are used instead. These boys, known as bacha bareesh, or “beardless boys,” are generally between ten and eighteen years old, and tend to come from poor backgrounds. Parents are persuaded to hand over their sons for financial reimbursement, with the promise that they will be given work and an education. Ostensibly, the young men work as dancers at private parties, however many are coerced into having sexual relationships with their masters. Boys who refuse to do so are often raped, and, in some reported cases, murdered if they manage to escape. So the Afghan was just a little more forceful with this French boy than he would have had to be at home — but you have his word, as an Afghan, that he meant no harm. He thought the boy would enjoy it, just the way they do at home.
He’s just he product of a different culture, I can hear the court-appointed French lawyer for this Afghan migrant argue. It’s understandable that the poor fellow, so far from home and so lonely [but then why did he come all the way to France?) would want to take his pleasure, just as the way so many did in his native land, even if sometimes a little force had to be used. Call it a “cultural misunderstanding.” The way things are going in France, he might get off with a fine, or at most a few years for what, in a sensible Western country that had not lost its head, would be punished with at least 20 years in jail. Here’s the story of that Afghan who raped a 14-year-old boy in France: “Afghan attempted murder suspect indicted for rape of 14-year-old boy in French village,” by Thomas Brooke, ReMix News, January 10, 2023:
An Afghan migrant, who has been living in France illegally, has been arrested on suspicion of the aggravated rape of a 14-year-old boy in a French village on Christmas Eve last year.
The attack reportedly took place at approximately 3.30 p.m. on Dec. 24 in the village of Croisilles (Pas-de-Calais) where the minor was raped and had his mobile phone stolen, a police source confirmed by the Arras prosecutor’s office told French broadcaster CNews.
Journalist Amaury Bucco tweeted on Monday that local officials had initially refused to respond to questioning about the rape when approached last month by CNews, citing only the theft of a mobile phone during the incident, however the local prosecutor’s office has now confirmed an investigation is ongoing into the attack and indictment proceedings have been opened against a 25-year-old Afghan national.
The suspect has a history of violence, and was “already known locally for having been dismissed in 2020 from the reception and situation examination center (CAES) in Croisilles, set up in 2017, where the administrative requests of migrants are examined,” Bucco reported.
A CAES [reception and situation examination center for migrants] employee told CNews in December that the suspect, known as Zalakahan S., had threatened to kill an employee of the center.
If you threaten to kill someone, are you not arrested? In France, are you no longer to be convicted of the crime of making death threats ? Is there something here that explains why he was not arrested? All we know is that he made the threat at the very office where the employees were attempting to help him, no doubt by counseling him as to how to regularize his irregular situation as an illegal immigrant. When he made that threat, shouldn’t the bureaucrats in the office have summoned the police to hold him in prison until he could be expelled back to Afghanistan? How did he manage to simply walk away? Instead, he went free: no detention by the police, no trial, no sentence, no expulsion from the country. there was no expulsion from the country, nor any trial for making death threats.
Instead the Afghan, Zalakahan S., somehow managed to roam far afield, all the way to Paris, where he committed an even more serious crime. Instead of making death threats, in February 2022, he tried to murder a tourist – no doubt a non-Muslim – by stabbing him in the neck. Why the neck? Because he surely remembered the Qur’anic injunction: “When you meet the unbelievers, strike the necks” (Qur’an 47:4). And so he did. But even that murderous attempt was apparently not enough for the French authorities to hold him.
Inexplicably, Zalakahan S. was allowed to roam freely and returned to Croisilles in March 2022 where he is understood to have resided until the aggravated rape of a minor last month.
How did Zalakahan S. live in Paris, or Croisilles? How did he earn money? What kind of work could such a man, without any French, without any education, possibly be able to perform? I assume he had managed, despite being an illegal immigrant, to get on the rolls to receive every possible benefit that the generous French state could provide: free housing, free medical care, money to pay for food and clothes, and that he likely supplemented those benefits with the proceeds from petty crime – street robberies and house burglaries. He may even have been involved in the drug trade, like so many Muslim men in France who have been uneager to hold regular jobs.
The Arras prosecutor’s office adds that the opening of a judicial investigation is envisaged (for the facts of December 24) in the coming days before an investigating judge of the Béthune judicial court, given the criminal nature of the facts,” Bucco tweeted.
The migration center in Croisilles has been the subject of a number of disturbing offenses committed by migrants since it was established in 2017.
A year after its inception, an alcoholic Moroccan migrant staying at the center was convicted of sexually assaulting a young girl working as a cashier at the village’s convenience store.
Two years later in 2020, another Afghan national, who was also residing in France illegally, was imprisoned and told to pay a €600 victim surcharge for sexually assaulting a young boy in the village.
Has France gone mad? How was it that this obvious economic migrant, who was in France illegally, was nonetheless able to receive benefits from the French state? And once he had made a death threat to the employees of an immigrant reception center, why was he not immediately arrested at that point, and promptly expelled, instead of being allowed to roam free? When he left Croisilles for Paris, what money did he have to pay for the ticket, and then for board and room in Paris? When he tried to “strike at the neck” of the foreign tourist in Paris, why was that not sufficient grounds for arresting him? Must he actually kill someone in order to be arrested? Again, he was let go, though on what grounds it’s impossible to say, given how little information has been released. He was allowed not only to remain free, but to travel back from Paris to Croisilles, where this appalling tale finally ends in an atrocious variant of the Afghan custom of the bacha bazi, except that in this case he didn’t find any young boy who was willing, so he resorted to the rape of a 14-year-old French boy, no doubt believing that what he did wasn’t really a crime, given how widespread the practice of using young boys for sexual purposes is in his home country. Afghan custom, not French law, was his guide, and as a result, that 14-year-old French boy may have been traumatized for life.
