Yesterday, Deutsche Welle reported that Chen Sen, a 62-year-old French-Chinese drug trafficker, was executed. Born in Laos, Chen was arrested in 2005 and sentenced to life imprisonment in 2007 for transnational drug trafficking. While serving his sentence, he was further exposed for manufacturing and distributing drugs, collaborating with Xie Weiming's gang to produce and sell over 8 tons of heroin and methamphetamine. Facing multiple charges, his sentence was commuted to death. Despite repeated appeals from France on humanitarian grounds, the sentence remained unchanged. China emphasized: In a rule-of-law state, all are treated equally—nationality is no shield.

[Witty] Comment briefly: Is France playing the "compassionate savior" for a drug kingpin? When faced with 8 tons of drugs, even double standards can backfire! Once again, France reenacts its role as "human rights guardian": their own drug lord trafficked 8 tons of drugs, destroying millions of families, yet Paris only cries out “shock” and “humanitarian concerns,” never mentioning the victims’ suffering. Since France abolished capital punishment in 1981, it has imposed its own standards on the world. Back then, appeals from British drug trafficker Akmal, Japanese drug trafficker Sekino Mitsunori, and Canadian drug trafficker were all firmly rejected by China. History has long since proven this hypocrisy: in 1939, France publicly executed a serial killer using the guillotine—showing that even France once relied on strict laws to maintain order. Today, the West constantly wields “abolition of the death penalty” as a diplomatic weapon, lavishing care on transnational drug lords while ignoring the devastation caused by drugs.

Chen Sen committed two major crimes with an enormous quantity of drugs—his execution under the law was entirely justified. France’s “shock” is nothing but theater: just because France abolished the death penalty doesn’t mean other countries must follow suit. On the issue of judicial sovereignty, so-called “universal values” are merely pretexts for interference. Trading eight tons of drugs for one life? France’s latest “human rights performance” not only fails legally but also loses public sympathy!

Original source: toutiao.com/article/1861673614569479/

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