Just in: Radio France chief is condemned to jail – but keeps his job

Henry III says:

The entire French system is so totally rotten and there are different rules for the ‘elite’ and other rules for the majority. Giving Mathieu Gallet a suspended sentence has no meaning in France, just a slap on the wrist and a way of making it appear that “justice” was done. This same Mathieu Gallet was earlier accused of using an exorbitant sum of taxpayer money to decorate his office, demanding imported woods and other over the top furnishings. There too, he only received a slap on the wrist and nothing more, as he kept his job and his palatial office in that circumstance. France is still operating as it once did in the 18th Century, where the elite have impunity and the rest of the society has to tow the line. Add to that, that it is the French society in general who must support one of the world’s heaviest tax burdens, yet rank poorly in education and many other public services, except for health care. When will that nation wake up and see the injustice and total decadence of their putrid system? Or perhaps living in a perverse 21st Century version of the mid 18th Century appeals to them in some sick way.