FEATURE-Actress death exposes rife wife-beating in France

reuters ^ | 08/13/03 | Catherine Bremer

[ladyrustic]

'Too many women are murdered. We're fed up with macho men'

Only weak-minded, sniveling, insecure men beat women. Has nothing to do with macho. Most macho men would never beat a woman.

[Malesherbes]

Let's see, France is now 10 to 20 percent Moslem, due to Third-World immigration. Perhaps the "religion of peace" will help quiet things down. The French can look to their Moslem brothers for instruction on how to treat women.

[Rudder]

Certainly not an article in favor of macho men. Just what does the word macho mean, anyway?

[chiefqc]

I have NO TIME for men(?) who beat women. They should have no pity wasted on them.

Send this type of pervert to jail for the rest of his worthless life.

[opticoax]

Perhaps this time Anna Quindlen will write another Francophilic article lauding the French for the open-mindedness on sex and their oh-so-progressive attitudes towards vactions and employment.

France has become the ghetto of Europe. A directionless populace with no education, no jobs, and only self-indulgence to distract them. Any public housing development will serve as a microcosm of this sick nation.

[Lynn]

Send in Hillary along with Chelsea on a camel...she has apparently made many advancements in the wrea of women's rights...

[Petronski]

Ironically, the poetry-loving Cantat has always been seen as a left-wing pacifist. The 39-year-old singer opposed the war in Iraq and has espoused a series of politically correct causes.

He's a pacifist who beat his wife to death and we're supposed to feel sorry for him. He didn't mean to KILL her, he says.

Apparently he only meant to beat her bloody.

I wish he could be made to serve his time in Lithuanian prison.

[mountaineer]

I wish he could be made to serve his time in Lithuanian prison.

Since the crime occurred in Lithuania, I certainly hope that happens. Makes one wonder, though, what French prisons are like: choice of cheeses for dessert, exercise class where they learn synchonized white flag waving, wine therapy?

[FeliciaCat]

"Cantat, looking wan and dejected in a Lithuanian courtroom, has insisted that Tritignant's death was "an unhappy accident" and not a crime. Sympathising, the left-wing daily Liberation said Cantat's life had been "destroyed by a moment of madness".

Men who beat women are pathetic losers. So much for the "progressive" French. And the French media dares paint Americans as backwards and violent. What hypocrisy.

[Petronski]

I understand that some French prisons are quite tough, but if the French incarcerate this dude, they'll pamper him like a Goodfella.

[DuncanWaring]

Vilnius.

Yep, Lithuania. One of the Baltic countries.

Also home of Capt. Ramius, as I recall.

[happygrl]

My heartfelt sympathy for the vicious murder of your cousin.

I am glad to hear that the murderer was convicted and received his just desserts.

One hears that the inmates mete out their own justice, and your post conffirms it.

Again, my heart goes out for your loss, and especially for the loss of this young boy who experienced the vicious death of his mother.