A friend of mine alerted me to this article, from le Parisien. This is a rough English translation. I'm not sure who the Indian is but I assume it's one from our show.
A Native American Indian from Canada appeared in front of Meaux's criminal court the day before yesterday for conjugal violence. The 26-year-old stuntman, employed by Disneyland Paris, was judged to have slapped his common law wife and to have tried to choke her before threatening her with a knife, on the night of 29-30 January, in Bailly-Romainvilliers, France.
Wearing very long dark hair, Boy Traveling Over Water, as he was named by the Blackfeet tribe, felt uncomfortable in the accused box. He seemed close to illness. Thanks to an interpreter who translated his English, the court was made to understand that the accused recognized the facts but that he was so inebriated with alcohol he did not remember the events.
"What she says is the truth, I am a weak man. Meeting Aurore is the best thing that has ever happened at me. " His common law wife, eight months pregnant, did not file a complaint.
Six months of prison, four suspended on probation required.
"The reassuring point is that he is conscious of the gravity of the situation. He does not try to minimize. He needs help. I require [him to serve] six months in prison among which four suspended on probation. I also ask for the seizure of the tomahawk which, if it was not used in this violence, was used in other contexts," commanded the deputy prosecutor, Emilie Goyet.
The Indian's partner, terrorized by the weapon, had hidden it. This did not prevent Mrs. Julia Moroni, the defense counsel, from demanding the restoration of this "domestic object".
"This dossier of conjugal violence is not uncommon. But there is a particular context: my client is a pure Indian from old stock, drinking since the age of 14, which is an atavism. He drinks before and after the show with his colleagues."
The court opted for six months prison, suspended with probation. And the tomahawk was seized.
The Parisian
Thursday, February 5, 2009
Tomahawk Not Returned to Violent Indian
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Both the "disney employee" and the lawyer were idiots, it sounds like to me. "Atavism" seems like somewhat of a racist term to me. There are plenty of Native Americans who have come and gone from the show and who currently work there, who don't have drinking problems or violent tendencies when they do drink.
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