Samuel Lafont

Samuel Lafont, French conservative politician and pro-family campaigner, Supporter of La Manif Pour Tous. Victim of homosexual violence.

Background

Lafont, from Nîmes in Southern France, is Consultant in Communication at Indépendant and a reporter at Radio Notre Dame. He was formerly Chargé de communication at Région Ile-de-France. He studied Philosophy and Administration at the Sorbonne University of Paris. He has also studied at CentraleSupélec and ESSEC Business School. He is a Roman Catholic, active in student politics and regional and national elections.

Victim of Homosexual Violence

On 26 May 2013, at a demonstration for man-woman marriage and child rights held in Paris by La Manif Pour Tous, Lafont was attacked by homosexual extremists and stabbed four times in the back. He also had injuries to his hands and arms.

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Two other demonstrators were also stabbed by the same attackers, one of them in the back.

Lafont, aged 25, had to be treated at the George Pompidou Hospital in Paris, where he was put in intensive care. He was in grave danger for some weeks but recovered and attended the next demonstration of LMPT in a wheelchair.

He stated on Twitter that he could not identify his attackers, but he had certainly received many threats beforehand.

The incident was reported on Twitter by a journalist of BFMTV, who confirmed that a knife attack had taken place near the Odéon metro station. After that, news coverage was distinctly thin. The incident was ignored by most news media and not reported outside France. Photographs of Lafont appeared on Facebook pages and were circulated by LMPT supporters but were excluded from the LGBT-dominated newspapers and TV, who never mentioned the names of the attackers.