First, a little context for this story.
Surviving family members of the Paris terrorist attack victims have been sent tax demands for their murdered loved ones.
French law demands that surviving relatives pay all unpaid tax, including the victims of terrorism, and are refusing to make an exception.
Patricia Correia, whose daughter Precilia was killed at the Bataclan music venue, said: "To make us pay the taxes of a child who was murdered is unacceptable.
Now the conflict between the parents and the tax-hungry left-wing government is escalating.
The parents of two victims who died in the Nov. 13 Paris attacks wrote a letter to French President Francois Hollande, notifying him they will no longer pay taxes and by extension fund the president’s “jihadist friends.”
The parents are furious with Hollande’s policies, which they claim allowed for the attack to happen. Paying taxes, the parents argue, will contribute to the surviving suspects’ attorneys fees and France’s new jihadist rehabilitation centers.
The parents notified the tax office and will take the tax money and put it in an account until affected families are compensated. They also want the death penalty to be reinstated and handed to the terrorists.
Here's Ace's translation of the Figaro story.
Some parents who lost their children in the terrorist attacks of 13 November have addressed a letter to the president of the Republic last week. They rail against the payment of the costs of lawyers for the presumed terrorists by the [taxpayers].
. To Francis Hollande, they explain that if their children had lost their life, it was due to their "jihadist friends." Therefore, they refuse henceforth to pay their taxes "which serve to defend the killers of our children through the intermediary of the funds guaranteed to hire their lawyers, and for their upkeep as well as that of their ilk on French soil, our Fatherland!"
They have so advised their tax collection center and placed their money in an blocked account.
"You have brought them to their deaths"
These parents, who do not wish to appear publicly, deplore "such subsidized criminals, who should never have been free and killing in the middle of the street at their whim!" Finally, according to them, their children "are dead, victims of your indulgence and interference," they write to Francois Hollande.
The open letter finishes with the "shame" of being led by Francois Hollande. "Our children were voting for you, we were telling them: This man will bring you to a bad end! We didn't believe it would be so literally! You have led them to their death," it reads at its end.
It could just as easily be a letter written to Obama.