Opinion · 28 September 2026
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Thomas Perotto, 16: When a Village Dance Became the Scene of an Anti-White, Anti-French Racist Murder
Quebec is not an island. What happens to our French cousins concerns us. Thomas Perotto, a 16-year-old rugby player, was stabbed to death on 19 November 2023 as he left the winter village ball in Crépol, a hamlet of 500 people in the Drôme. Nearly three years later, investigating judges retained the aggravating circumstance of racism: the acts were committed because the victims belonged to “the white race and the French nation.” This was a late reversal, obtained against the prosecutor’s office, which preferred to speak of a “futile motive.” Witnesses had reported from the beginning remarks such as “we’re here to plant Whites,” “kill French people,” “waste the little Whites,” or “dirty French scum.”
A village evening like those that still exist in France… and in Quebec
Crépol was holding its winter ball. Four hundred people. Families, local youth, rugby players from nearby Romans-sur-Isère. Thomas was there with his brother and teammates. Around 2 a.m., a group of about ten young men from the La Monnaie neighborhood in Romans, who were not on the guest list, entered. One of them handed a knife to the security guard before going in.
A remark about one visitor’s long hair (compared to a Jul song) escalated. The fight moved outside. Knives appeared. Thomas was stabbed in the chest. He died on the way to hospital. Two other young men were seriously wounded. About fifteen people in total were injured. The attack lasted only a few minutes.
Most of those charged have Maghrebi first names. They are French on paper, born in Romans. For a long time the prosecutor’s office refused to see anything other than a brawl between young people. The judges eventually listened to the witnesses.
Village festivals are still that: deep France. Like our Saint-Jean celebrations, our rang parties, our summer bals. Places where people recognize one another and do not have to scan every face.
Woke denial and the price of “living together”
For months a portion of the media and authorities spoke of a “brawl,” a “futile motive,” an “escalation.” As if acknowledging the racial character of certain violence was more dangerous than the violence itself. That is the woke reflex: when the victims are White and the attackers come from extra-European immigration, one first looks for social context, provocation, or “street language.”
The prosecutor contested the racist circumstance to the end, arguing the testimonies were a minority and imprecise. The judges ruled otherwise. Eleven accused have been sent to the juvenile assizes with that aggravating factor. They face life imprisonment.
This is not a legal footnote. It is the recognition, however belated, that anti-White and anti-French racism exists. A racism that the dominant ideology long denied in the name of “living together.”
A lengthening list: France is no longer a safe country for its children
Thomas is not an isolated case. Here are a few names that official France too often tried to file away as miscellaneous news items:
- Lola Daviet, 12, Paris, October 2022. Abducted, raped, tortured and killed by Dahbia Benkired, an Algerian woman under an obligation to leave French territory (OQTF).
- Philippine Le Noir de Carlan, 19, Paris, September 2024. Raped and murdered by an illegal Moroccan immigrant in the Bois de Boulogne.
- Shemseddine, 15, Viry-Châtillon, 2024. Beaten to death by a group of youths near his middle school.
- Elias, 14, Paris, January 2025. Stabbed with a machete for his phone by two minors already known to the justice system.
- Louis, 17, Narbonne, June 2026. Lured to a construction site and beaten to death by five young men. The assault was filmed.
- Lorène, 15, Nantes, 2025. Stabbed dozens of times in her high school.
- Matisse, 15, Châteauroux, 2024. Stabbed to death.
The list is not exhaustive. It is enough. French children and teenagers killed by minors or young adults often from recent immigration or from neighborhoods where the authority of the state has evaporated. Unenforced expulsion orders. Repeat offenders released. A juvenile justice system that protects perpetrators more than victims.
Quebec is not yet at that stage. But the same mechanisms are at work: poorly controlled mass immigration, refusal to name the cultural origins of certain problems, “anti-racist” censorship that prevents speaking plainly.
A message to Quebecers
We are a small French people in America. Our survival is not guaranteed. If we accept the same dogmas — immigration as an unconditional good, denial of statistics, shame at being ourselves — we will reproduce the same tragedies.
Sovereignty is not a nostalgic slogan. It is the only instrument that would allow us to decide who enters, according to what criteria, and to protect our French character. Federal Canada has no interest in Quebec remaining a distinct society. It has every interest in diluting us.
Our French cousins are paying today the price of decades of blindness. We still have time to open our eyes.
To Thomas’s parents, his family, his teammates
We think of you. A 16-year-old son who went to a village dance and never came home. A rugby player. An ordinary kid. Your pain is immense. Judicial recognition of the racist character of this murder will not bring Thomas back. It at least says that the truth finally broke through.
Quebec remembers. Deep France does too, even if part of its elite did everything to forget.
Thomas Perotto, 16 years old. Crépol, 19 November 2023. We will not forget.
Video reports of the white march in Romans-sur-Isère and the funeral tributes exist on French news channels (TF1, BFMTV, France 3). They show a people that, despite everything, still refuses to look away.
