Anne-Thaïs du Tertre d’Escoeuffant, known online as Thaïs d’Escufon, said she will appeal after a French court found her guilty but did not impose jail time.
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A 26-year-old French activist who faced the possibility of prison over remarks she made on television about crime and immigration has been convicted and fined 1,000 euros, or about $1,100, but avoided jail time.
Anne-Thaïs du Tertre d’Escoeuffant, who uses the pseudonym Thaïs d’Escufon on social media, had been prosecuted after saying on French television that the primary danger to women in France came from black African and Arab immigrant men. WorldNetDaily reported on her case as she sought public support before the verdict.
Following the ruling, d’Escoeuffant said international attention and financial support had changed her position, leading her to pursue an appeal despite the legal risk.
“Before your incredible mobilization, the judicial system had set out to crush me,” she said in a new video. “This time, I think the goal was to finish the job by sending me to prison.”
“So yes it is a risk. I could receive a harsher sentence,” she said, adding that she no longer saw a reason for cowardice.
D’Escoeuffant also used her latest public statements to highlight the case of Jean-Eudes Gannat, a father, local councilman and identity activist who was prosecuted after filming Afghan migrants outside a supermarket in Segré, France.
“Listen to this latest absurdity,” she said Sunday. “Last November, Jean-Eudes Gannat, who is a father and identity activist and a local councilman, filmed a video in front of the supermarket in his small town.”
In the video, Gannat walked in front of a Leclerc supermarket and commented on a group of Afghan migrants outside the store.
“You see I’m in the town I grew up in, about 10,000 people, I think. And for a few years now, every evening it’s been like this. There you have it,” Gannat said.
“We kind of wonder what’s going on. But basically, you’ve got Afghan refugees hanging around. Always at Leclerc buying food and doing nothing. Welcome to the French countryside,” he said.
The video also included a superimposed message that said: “Sick of with living with the Taliban’s cousins in the middle of our countryside.”
D’Escoeuffant said Gannat was taken into custody the day after filming the video and questioned for two days.
“The next day,” d’Escoeuffant said in a second video, “he was held in police custody for 48 hours and subjected to completely crazy interrogations where they asked him where his children went to school, what his relationship with them was like, how he raised them. Stasi-style basically.”
“In the end, he was recently prosecuted and sentenced to a three-month suspended prison sentence and a fine of 4,650 euros ($5,600) including 600 euros ($700) in compensation for each Afghan migrant he filmed,” she said.
“Native French people who speak out against non-European immigration and its damages are subjected to a veritable ritual of humiliation,” d’Escoeuffant said. “They are forced to submit and love their invaders and their tormentors against their will. We identitarian activists are hunted down like criminals because we love our country. My friends, keep fighting and defend your freedom of speech tooth and nail, because if you lose it, you lose everything, your sovereignty, your identity.”
D’Escoeuffant also shared a support link for Gannat.
The case drew a response from Eva Vlaardingerbroek, founder of the Save Europe Act, described as the first patriotic European Citizens’ Initiative.
“Yet another European patriot has been charged with ‘inciting racial hatred’ simply for showing the reality of mass immigration,” Vlaardingerbroek said.
“This is our reality. If you speak out against or even just show what the great replacement looks like, they throw you in jail. Incredible,” she said.
D’Escoeuffant said she is also battling restrictions on her social media presence after repeated account bans.
“Five months ago, my Instagram account was banned for ‘dangerous organizations.’ That was my 15th account,” she said in another video. “I can no longer create a new one that’s lasts more than a few months. My name and face are literally blacklisted.”
“I filed an appeal, but it was denied. I sent a letter from my lawyer, but my requests to Meta have gone unanswered. I need your help to call them out on this unacceptable censorship. In France, it’s rampant more so than anywhere else in Europe,” she said.
The legal and censorship disputes come amid continuing debate in Europe over immigration, public safety, national identity and free speech. In 2024, the United Nations estimated France had 9.2 million immigrants, representing 13.8% of its population. That made France second in Europe for foreign-born population behind Germany and tied with the United Kingdom.
In Britain, a recent Rape Gang Inquiry Report said it “examined the systematic targeting of vulnerable girls, overwhelmingly White British, by predominantly Muslim Pakistani gangs across towns and cities throughout the United Kingdom. The evidence put to the Inquiry confirms that this scandal constitutes one of the most horrendous failures in the history of the country.”
“Organized networks of perpetrators built coordinated operations that transported victims between locations, supplied them with drugs and alcohol, recorded abuse for distribution and blackmail, and passed girls between multiple adult men,” the report said.
“The scale of the crimes committed is staggering. It has been previously established that, at the very least, 250,000 young white girls have been subjected to repeated rape, gang rape, trafficking, torture, pregnancy, forced Islamic conversion, and lifelong trauma. The true number is probably higher,” the report said.
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