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"Mr President, 12 000 people died in 10 days. That is three times as many as died in the Twin Towers. A thousand people died per day, alone, abandoned. The corpses were stored in refrigerated lorries, in army caissons, in a fruit and vegetable market in Rungis in Paris. Not since Neanderthal man, long before Antigone, has the law of burial been violated.
Where is this Timisoara taking place? Under Milosevic? In Baghdad, under Saddam Hussein? In Haider’s Austria? In the camps under the guards mentioned by Berlusconi? In Somalia, in the Rwanda of 1000 hills? It is in France. The France of the World Athletics Championships, the France of human rights, the France of gold medals, the France of Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, the father of the Constitution, the first article of which recognizes the right to dignity, including dignity for the elderly.
Where did all these deaths occur? Sixty-six percent of the deaths occurred in old people’s homes, hospitals and specialised centres. They were not given enough to drink. They died of dehydration. Why is that? Because there were no nurses, no staff, no doctors. Why? Because the budgetary Stability Pact demands savings and cuts have to be made. As a result, cuts have been made to the detriment of the weakest, who cannot protest, to the detriment of the elderly.
Most of those who died were women. They did not die from domestic violence, as the women’s rights committee believes. They did not die from discrimination or unequal treatment, they died from dehydration. That brings us to the causes, namely the cumulative effect of collective errors made over the past 20 years. The collective error of ultraliberalism, economism – in the nineteenth century ultraliberalism produced Zola, Victor Hugo, the proletariat and millions of deaths, and ultraliberalism is starting to claim deaths once again. The collective error of ‘human rightsism’, which leaves no place for Lenin among official rights and genuine rights, not to mention the hypocrisy which proclaims rights only to the extent that they are violated.
What, then, is to be done? Of course, Mr Barnier, we can announce funding, plans, a new economy and a new hierarchy. The truth, confirmed by statistics, is that not one of those who died came from the middle classes or the great
. It was those at the bottom of the heap who died. It is just as well that we have banned meatmeal, for otherwise they would have ended up minced in battery pig farms, although it is true that pigs are not abandoned, unlike the elderly people of France."@en1
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