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To: Yaacov who wrote (7194)3/3/2005 6:00:42 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 22250
 
Re: Gus for man of your intelegence and culture I need not to waste words, you understand.

Indeed, I understand so much! <g> Yaacov, I also understand that you welcome Belgian news from time to time? Well, here you are: the article below reports a pathetic affair of racist blackmailing against a Flemish factory owner because the latter has hired a hijab-wearing Moroccan woman... The whole affair did cause a little stir in the "Belgian village", so much so that the protagonists --the Flemish entrepreneur-turned-hero Rik Remmery, his hapless employee Naima Amzil and her husband-- were all hauled up to the Royal Palace last month for a photo session with the King and support thereof....

So the official theory so far has it that Mijnheer R. Remmery is the prime victim of the blackmail: he's the one who keeps receiving threatening mails, mafia-style, with bullets enclosed! The blackmail letters were allegedly written by a new and shadowy outfit, Vrij Vlaanderen, ie Free Flanders, whose chief concern seems to be the ethnic cleansing of corporate Flanders from all darkies, immigrants, and non-Flemish workers... regardless of their employers' eagerness to keep them. Of course, the funny twist to the whole story is that, so far, Vrij Vlaanderen has only focused on one Flemish enterprise, Mr Remmery's --a one-at-a-time strategy maybe?

Anyway, you got the picture. Now, my hunch is that we are dealing with a fascinating case of the Firefighter Arsonist Syndrome!(*) That is to say that the "defiant" entrepreneur who wouldn't yield to a racist blackmail is actually the blackmailer!! Shocking, isn't it? LOL... But, as you know, Yaacov, human perversity and cunning are fathomless!

See how Mr Remmery's nastiness works: he won't dismiss his Moroccan employee on his own, oh no! That would spoil his image and self-esteem as a brave yet vulnerable employer eager to hire people of every stock --btw, I forgot to note that Mrs Naima Amzil is/was his ONLY immigrant employee... Brave maybe, but not foolhardy!

So, Mr Remmery, somehow, shifts the blackmail threat on to his Moroccan employee, Mrs Amzil, who will henceforth nurse a guilt complex out of the emotional blackmail her boss has deviously cast upon her... Eventually, she herself beg her discharge! Devilish, isn't it?

Naïma démissionne (03/03/2005)
Sept lettres et une deuxième balle pour le patron de l'entreprise Remmery!

LEDEGEM
Cette fois, les choses vont vraiment trop loin. Hier, Rik Remmery, patron de cette petite entreprise de zakouski à Ledegem, près de Courtrai, a reçu une lettre de menaces. Ce n'est pas la première, loin de là, mais la septième lettre! Surtout, c'est la deuxième qui contient une balle de pistolet et des menaces directes pour lui et sa famille. A bout de nerfs, Naïma, l'employée d'origine marocaine qui porte le voile, a préféré remettre sa démission à son patron. Les menaces vont-elles cesser pour autant?

Car tout était parti de là, en novembre dernier: si Rik Remmery était menacé de mort, c'était parce qu'il engageait parmi ses ouvrières une femme qui porte le voile. Naïma Amzil est parfaitement trilingue, français, néerlandais et arabe, a deux petits enfants nés en Flandre et est parfaitement intégrée. Elle ne portait plus le voile au boulot, seulement sur le chemin vers l'entreprise, mais un ou des extrémistes s'acharnent et veulent sa démission depuis trois mois. Soutenu par une pétition qui a récolté plus de 20.000 signatures, encouragé par le roi Albert II en personne, qui l'a reçu au Palais le 12 janvier, Rik Remmery a tenu bon, en dépit d'une protection policière qui lui fut imposée par mesure de sécurité. Depuis la quatrième lettre, qui évoquait un contrat de 250.000 euros sur la tête du patron, les menaces sont allées en grandissant. La cinquième missive contenait une balle. La sixième, voici trois semaines, annonçait que Rik Remmery allait être exécuté et la septième, hier, contenait une balle, avec de nouvelles menaces précises: «La fatwa (la menace) reste tant que le foulard reste», pouvait-on lire.

Hier, Naïma était en congé pour la journée quand son patron est venu l'informer. «Cette fois, c'est trop. J'ai annoncé que je démissionnais, nous a dit Naïma hier soir. La lettre parle de moi: l'auteur dit que si je ne pars pas, on va faire du mal à mon patron et sa famille, je ne peux pas l'accepter. Cela fait trois mois que ça dure. Tout le monde me soutient, mais je ne peux plus. Nerveusement, ce n'est plus tenable, j'ai deux petits enfants de deux ans et deux mois, je vais rester auprès d'eux à la maison. C'est malheureux d'en arriver là, mais je n'ai pas d'autre choix. Et je sais que ça va être très difficile pour moi de retrouver du travail: qui va encore vouloir m'engager après cela? Je ne souhaite qu'une chose: qu'on arrête au plus vite l'auteur de ces menaces.»

Nancy Ferroni

© La Dernière Heure 2005


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To: Yaacov who wrote (7194)3/3/2005 6:07:14 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER  Respond to of 22250
 
Follow-up to my previous post --I dug up an English version:

Belgian director again threatened because of muslim woman

BRUSSELS
- The employer of a muslimwoman in the Belgian town of Ledegem again received threats yesterday, in which is said there is a price on his head of 250,000 euros if he does not fire his employee. Employer Remmery, owner of a wholesale business in fish, announced that yesterday in a conversation with the Flemish public radiostation VRT. Remmery says he will not go into the threats. The District Attorney of the West-Flemish town of Kortrijk has already put more people on the case. This is already the fourth threat towards Remmery, who had already received anonymous threats to oblige the muslim woman not to wear her headscarf any longer. Out of her own free will the woman had already decided to put off her headscarve. The autors of the threatening letters now demanded the employer to fire the woman. “They accuse me of collaborating with the Islam” according to Remmery. “I’m not planning to concede with these threats. This is just unacceptable.” The threatening letters have been signed by the call New Free Flanders. The magazine Vrij Vlaanderen (Free Flanders) is a publication of the youth department of the Vlaams Belang (Flemish Interest), the successor to the extreme-right party Vlaams Blok (Flemish Bloc). The party has already announced they have nothing to do with the threatening letters.

The employee, 31-year old Naïma Amzil, has already handed in her resignation. The Belgian woman of Moroccan origin says she can no longer endure the tensions that come with the threats. Her employer has refused her resignation. “If I fire her now, she will never ever find work again. Nobody would want to hire her, because they fear they will receive death threats as well” according to Remmery, who is satisfied with the quality of the work the woman does. “Naïma has a family, a mortgage that has to be paid. I just can’t fire her. I won’t give her up” according to the West-Flemish owner of a wholesale business in fish. In the last letter he received, he is called a ‘bad Fleming’. “You collaborate with the muslims. We want to make an example for other companies. You have signed your death-warrant” according to the autors.

The Flemish employers’ organisation Unizo meanwhile has already started with a sympathy action for the company of Remmery on the Internet. Unizo calls the Remmery firm an example of how employers and employees in a lot of small businesses treat each other. Besides that, Unizo praises the employee Naïma for her commitment to the company.

source: Eindhovens Dagblad (Eindhoven Daily)

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