Agence France-Presse - 12/24/2008 9:42 AM GMTChirac's Vietnamese daughter slams French racism
Former French president Jacques Chirac's Vietnamese adopted daughter hit out Wednesday at violence against France's Asian community, after two of her countrywomen were stabbed to death in Paris.
Anh Dao Traxel, who was taken in by Jacques and Bernadette Chirac when she arrived in France amid the exodus of Vietnamese "boat people" in 1979, demanded a thorough inquiry into what she dubbed "a horrible and barbaric" crime.
"I am very shocked," she said. "These young women were killed like dogs."
The victims, two women of Asian appearance aged between 20 and 30, were found dead on Tuesday in central Paris' 11th district, in an area with a large immigrant community also known for its fashionable bars and nightclubs.
Traxel raised the possibility that the crime may have had a racist motive and said that if this was the case her father's successor President Nicolas Sarkozy ought to condemn it as he would an attack on any other minority group.
"The French political class and the media should not be silent. They should react with the same energy as when the victims are Jewish, North African Arabs or Africans," the 51-year-old civil servant told AFP.
French police and prosecutors have opened an inquiry.
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フランス、前大統領の養女のベトナム人女性が、パリでのアジア人惨殺事件について人種差別的な動機があったんではないか、という声を上げている。ヘイトクライムではないか、というわけだ。
やはり、フランスでもアジア人に対する蔑視というか、憎悪感情はかなりあるのか？
もう一つの側面を指摘しておきたいのは、欧米では、こうして、ベトナム人など、異なる肌の色の人を養子養女にする場合がわりにあるということ。
これはかなり重要なことだ。
今回の事件でも、こうして社会的に権力者の養女が少数者の立場から発言したからこそ、こうしたマイノリティの立場を社会に訴えることができた。
また、肌の色の違う人たちと家族になることによって、より深い絆が生まれる。
