Road to Genocide of the Génétiquement Dysfonctionnel (1988-1999)On 7 October 1988, the Director of the PIGC, Marin de la Trémouille, announced that the Purgation national DNA database had succeeded in analysing roughly 480 million genetic profiles - estimated to be slightly under half of the Purgation adult population at the time - and the PIGC was ready to establish an algorithm classifying the genetic profiles into two main categories - the 'genetically healthy' (
Génétiquement Sain) on the one hand, and the 'genetically disordered' (
Génétiquement Dysfonctionnel) on the other. In coordination with data received from the Purgation Police Force (PPF), PICOS, and even the Purification Order, the PIGC had been working on classifying its genetic materials into two classes based on what it termed 'phenotypical expressions of antisocial behaviours, deviant proclivities, and/or parasitical tendencies unfit for proper integration into a healthy and productive community' versus everyone else for whom such 'phenotypical expressions' were absent.
In the PIGC's definition, an 'antisocial, deviant, and/or parasitical disposition' was construed as a very broad category, and included 'vandals' (referring to hooligans, rioters, delinquents, terrorists, criminals, gangsters, and any persons engaged in such other antisocial or disorderly behaviour), 'cripples' (meaning the physically and mentally disabled), 'vagrants' (referring to the homeless, panhandlers, travellers, wanderers, vagabonds, or anyone roaming about public spaces without any visible means of self-support or self-maintenance), 'work-shy moochers and leeches' (persons who were persistently unemployed, not self-sufficient or self-reliant in the long run, or were dependent upon welfare and/or charity for their upkeep for prolonged periods of time), the 'insane and unsound' (people who were regarded as psychologically disordered), the 'addled and incontinent' (persistent substance abusers or persons deemed chronically dependent on psychoactive substances, such as psychoactive drugs, nicotine, or alcohol), the 'indolent and slothful' (in reference to the morbidly obese), and the 'imbecilic, retarded, and feeble-minded' (anyone who was intellectually impaired or had a very low IQ of below 70). Such persons were deemed to be 'genetically disordered', having a biological or genetic constitution which tended towards socially harmful or unproductive behaviours and traits, whereas everyone else was considered 'genetically healthy'.
The PIGC then made use of forensic epidemiology to compare the genetic profiles in the former classification against the genetic profiles in the latter, to identify 'repeat deviations' or 'allelic patterns' - in other words, gene sequences which were significantly statistically more likely to be present in one class but not the other. These 'genetic variations' were aggregated and agglomerated into a metadata algorithmic model which was, in theory, supposed to predict the relative likelihood of a given individual's genetic profile being indicative of a 'genetically healthy' profile (which, ostensibly, would not tend towards antisocial, deviant, and/or parasitical traits or behaviours) or a 'genetically disordered' one (which, allegedly, would). Any DNA profile which indicated an unusually high likelihood or probability of being 'genetically disordered' would be classified as such, which the PIGC estimated to be approximately 14-16% of all the genetic profiles within the entire Purgation population.
Thus, the Director of the PIGC promulgated PIGC Order No. 86 of 1988, also known as the
"Genetic Identification Ordinance", which established the national DNA database's predictive algorithm, which he referred to as the
Auspex Operandi, into law. All residents of Purgatio would be required to submit their genetic materials into the
Auspex Operandi if they have not already done so, and the PPF, PICOS, and Purification Order were to assist in the nationwide enforcement of that requirement. All residents would be issued with national photo ID cards with biometric identifiers, and barcodes encoded with data corresponding to their genetic profile in the
Auspex Operandi. The barcode could be scanned to determine the card-holder's basic identifying information, and most importantly, whether they were registered in the
Auspex Operandi as 'genetically healthy' or 'genetically disordered'. In the view of the PIGC, as more and more genetic materials were collected and then fed into the DNA database, and as more and more antisocial persons manifested their 'disordered' tendencies in their behaviour, the
Auspex Operandi algorithmic model was supposed to get more and more accurate and refined over time in its predictions.
The next day, the Executive Directorate of Purgatio (EDP) would implement Executive Order (EO) No. 3659 of 1988, promulgated by the
Magnificus Dominus on 8 October 1988. EO 3659/1988 made it a criminal offence for persons to fail or refuse to provide their DNA materials into the national DNA database, and made it mandatory for all persons to carry their national photo ID card (which could only be obtained from the PIGC on provision of their DNA) on their person in public at all times, and empowered the PPF and PICOS to conduct random door-to-door searches or 'stop and searches' in any public spaces to demand that randomly selected persons present their photo ID cards for inspection, with the aim of identifying any persons who had failed to register their genetic profiles with the PIGC. Most significantly, EO 3659/1988 clarified that persons found to have "wilfully and deliberately" refused genetic registration would be presumptively classified as
Génétiquement Dysfonctionnel (until or unless proven otherwise by the application of the
Auspex Operandi algorithm), and authorised the PPF and PICOS to determine the "appropriate response to any such failure of genetic registration in their absolute discretion", inclusive of forcible extraction of their DNA materials, detention in a concentration camp, and even the use of lethal or deadly force to apprehend such persons or prevent their escape from custody. This broad immunity was extended even to "private persons operating under an auxiliary force working in concert or conjunction with the investigative or enforcement efforts of uniformed officers of the PPF and/or the PICOS", which was a clear reference to the paramilitary volunteer soldiers in the Purification Order.
On 16 October 1988, the PNC legislature re-convened as Premier Jeanne-Emmanuelle de la Fayette moved
Le Loi pour la Préservation de la Liberté Génétique et l'Avancement de la Transparence des Informations Génétiques or "The Law for the Preservation of Genetic Freedom and the Promotion of the Transparency of Genetic Information", often referred to as the
"Genetic Information Act" for short. That Law clarified that every person would have the right, in law, to request information regarding whether another person's genetic status was categorised as 'genetically healthy' or 'genetically disordered' under the
Auspex Operandi, and provided that "nothing in law, written or unwritten, shall be construed as depriving any person of their absolute prerogative and privilege to determine, as a matter of their own personal choice and exercise of individual freedom, that they shall condition the performance of any act for, or extension of any benefit, advantage, or privilege to, any other person, upon the contingency that that other person shall hold, or not hold, a particular genetic classification of their own preference". The
Première Législatrice Jeanne-Emmanuelle described the proposed Law in her Second Reading speech as a "common-sense measure to promote freedom of information, personal choice, and the free private ordering of people's individual lives", arguing that that Law was "not about discrimination but about freedom of choice, pure and simple". She added that the proposed Law was "a defensive and pre-emptive measure", designed to assure Purgation citizens that they would not have to fear the prospect of "frivolous spiteful litigation or other such retaliatory measures" if they exercised "their personal choice to prefer to associate with persons classified as, for example,
Génétiquement Dysfonctionnel, or they wished not to associate with persons classified as
Génétiquement Sain". She also made a light-hearted and jocular remark in her speech, to the bemused laughter of many in the legislative chamber at the time, that "as someone whose classification has come back as 'genetically healthy', I can tell you that I would not personally be offended if someone didn't want to sleep with me, marry me, or start a family with me, just because they didn't want to do so with someone who was 'genetically healthy' and not 'genetically disordered', that's their right after all, and it's really not my place to tell them otherwise. This isn't rocket-science, it's plain common-sense!"
On 17 October 1988, the Genetic Information Act was passed into law by the PNC by a margin of 488-0, with 152 absentees. Soon after the passage of that Act, various Purgation media outlets began to run sensationalist stories and eye-catching headlines claiming to be re-publishing the anecdotal accounts of ordinary Purgation citizens claiming to have suffered various misdeeds and injuries from
Dysfonctionnel individuals. Many of these media sources were either tabloids, broadsheets, other daily newspapers, or televised news channels owned and controlled by two prominent business empires in the country, the Courvoisier media empire (under the Rising Dawn Press Holdings Company Limited group of companies) and the De Sablé media empire (under
La Société des Nouvelles Créations (Compagnie Financière) corporate family), which was notable as both the Courvoisier and De Sablé families had been prominent donors to the PNL party back in their 1981 and 1987 general election campaigns. Right-wing tabloids such as
La Petite Auxiliorienne and
La Voix du Royaume ran sensationalist stories and anecdotal accounts from members of the public claiming that they had been the victims of all manners of antisocial behaviours from a person whom they later discovered was registered as
Génétiquement Dysfonctionnel.
A group of underage teenage girls claimed in a story that ran on the front pages of
Le Courrier Purgatien on 23 October 1988 that a much older man had propositioned them for sex whilst they were strolling about on the streets of Ravaliér the night before and, upon learning of their true ages, attempted to offer them money in exchange for their sexual services, following which they alerted their local volunteer fighters in the Purification Order, who beat the man to death and then discovered from his ID card that he was indeed
Dysfonctionnel. A father in his mid-fifties would allege in another story that made the front pages of
Nous Sommes Tannés! on 30 October 1988 that a pair of juvenile delinquents made lewd and obscene remarks on the street to his wife before slapping her behind, which prompted him to lose control, punch them, and restrain them, before handing them over to his local PICOS officers. He claimed in his account that he recently learnt from PICOS that the pair were unregistered and when their genetic materials were forcibly extracted and sent into the
Auspex Operandi for profiling, they were registered into the system and subsequently discovered to be
Dysfonctionnel as well. A businessman in Limogens who owned and operated a small local café would make another claim in
Le Journal de l'Ouest on 2 November 1988 that he had taken the 'risk' of hiring a young man to work as his cashier despite his photo ID indicating that he was
Dysfonctionnel, only to realise far too late that that employee had been stealing money from the cash register for over a month before running off and disappearing with the stolen monies. A conveyancing lawyer in Lyons would volunteer another anecdotal story to
L'Homme Couronné on 5 November 1988 claiming that she had likewise taken the 'risk' of engaging a real estate agent in a conveyancing transaction for her client without conducting any checks to ascertain the agent's genetic status, who then absconded with the sale proceeds once her client's home had been sold off. She also alleged that that agent was found to be
Dysfonctionnel after her local Purification Order paramilitaries tracked her down and apprehended her at the airport in Auxiliora, attempting to flee the country.
The veracity or authenticity of such accounts was often difficult to verify and ascertain, given their isolated and anecdotal character. However, the sheer volume of such accounts being released in the tabloid and broadsheet press, coupled with the shocking and attention-grabbing nature of such stories, all but guaranteed that such tales would be widely shared and republished and hence could freely percolate throughout the mainstream press to garner a very broad audience. Although the PIGC never released any official peer-reviewed studies examining whether, across-the-board, there was any general trend of
Dysfonctionnel persons committing more crimes, the Director of the PIGC, Marin de la Trémouille, would often issue unofficial remarks to the press which the media would quote and publish alongside these anecdotal reports about the alleged conduct of certain
Dysfonctionnel persons, in which he would express his own view that such 'troubling' stories being shared
en masse in the mass media sphere 'underscored the seminal importance of erring on the side of caution and performing proper comprehensive genetic checks in such sensitive situations, in the interest of prudence'.
The Purgation government abstained, at first, from promulgating any formal regulatory measures which mandated or prescribed any official discrimination against the
Génétiquement Dysfonctionnel in law. However, the climate of fear and suspicion cultivated against
Dysfonctionnel persons in the mainstream press by an inundating wave of such negative reporting, coupled with the Genetic Information Act which was recently enacted by the PNC and which purported to merely 'make available' to individuals the right to access information about a person's genetic classification, meant that the task of implementing widespread systemic discrimination against the
Dysfonctionnel had effectively been delegated and outsourced to the private sector and private individuals. Many prominent financial institutions such as
La Banque Royale d'Auxiliora,
Le Crédit Commercial de Montfauçon,
La Banque Purgatienne de Valentinois, and
Le Crédit Industriel de la Société Commerciale de la Couronne issued various public statements in November to December 1988, announcing that they would be denying most housing loans, overdraft facilities, and credit card facilities to persons unable to provide proof that they have been classified as 'genetically healthy', and that only a small number of short-term, high-interest loans would remain available to 'genetically disordered' customers, citing the supposed 'higher credit risk' associated with the latter class of borrowers. Many rental companies began to enact similar corporate policies, requiring a person to show evidence of a
Génétiquement Sain genetic classification before renting an apartment to them, or only offering leases to the 'genetically disordered' if they were willing to pay a larger deposit and/or live in separate apartment buildings reserved only for other 'disordered' tenants situated on the outskirts of cities (to avoid living in proximity to the 'genetically healthy' tenants). Major companies such as
Les Laboratoires de Corday,
Le Crédit Commercial de Montfauçon,
Les Pharmaceutiques de Vérac,
Les Investissements Commerciaux de Marais, and
La Société des Nouvelles Créations (Compagnie Financière) began to announce from November 1988 onwards that they would no longer be hiring or promoting any employees to a managerial or executive position without national identification evidencing that they were registered as
Génétiquement Sain, and they would similarly be conducting genetic checks on their existing management and terminating the employment of any corporate officer discovered to be either unregistered or
Génétiquement Dysfonctionnel.
Soon enough, on 17 December 1988, the nation's oldest and most prestigious university,
L'Université de Savoy-Ducasse, saw its Chancellor issue a formal public statement that it would be denying admission to any students of a
Génétiquement Dysfonctionnel genetic classification, and would require all future applicants to produce proof of their
Auspex Operandi registration records for such checks to be performed, describing it as a 'deeply difficult and troubling decision for the University to make, but ultimately, we are of the view that maintaining a safe and secure learning environment for all our students must be deemed to be of paramount importance to us all'. A few days later, on 21 December 1988, the second oldest university in the country, the equally prestigious
L'Université de Pétrus, issued a similar announcement that it would be adopting the same admissions criteria. Top private schools in the country including
L'Académie d'Excellence Scolaire de Savoy-Ducasse and
L'École de la Fondation d'Amboise pour les Prodiges followed suit and issued similar announcements that it would cease to take in any more students of a
Dysfonctionnel genetic status. And by the end of the year, on 31 December 1988, one of the country's oldest Inns of Court which controlled and regulated admission into the nation's legal profession -
La Vénérable Association de la Pivoine Rose - announced that as part of its 'fit and proper person' checks, it would adopt the view that a pupil of a
Dysfonctionnel genetic classification was not a 'fit and proper person' to be admitted to the Bar, with many other Inns of Court swiftly adopting a similar policy in the subsequent weeks and months.
As the discrimination against the
Génétiquement Dysfonctionnel ramped up across the nation and quickly increased in scale and intensity across various spheres of public life, a new civil society and human rights organisation, calling itself the Genetic Equality Movement (GEM) (or
Le Mouvement pour l'Égalité Génétique (MEG)), came to be founded on 1 January 1990, consisting of over 80,000 founding members, all bearing a
Dysfonctionnel genetic status, with the stated aim in its articles of association of 'dispelling myths and pushing back against various demonising stereotypes about the so-called 'genetically disordered', raising awareness about the status of our community, and striving for our equal inclusion and acceptance in Purgation society at large'. The GEM experienced rapid growth, and by the close of 31 January 1990, its registered membership numbers exceeded 16 million persons.
The PNL Government initially adopted an ambivalent view of the GEM organisation. The Media and Culture Secretary Marquisa de Taillefer registered the organisation on 1 January 1990 without much resistance and the
Magnificus Dominus Chalon-Arlay himself even made a statement in an interview dated 6 January 1990, in response to a journalist asking him for his thoughts on the GEM, that he 'welcomed a diversity of views and perspectives on this challenging debate about the problem of the
Dysfonctionnel, an issue on which there are a multitude of strong emotions on both sides, on many sides, all of which, I believe, must be heard sincerely and respected'. Some members of the EDP, however, were more vocally critical about the organisation. The High Inquisitor of PICOS Geneviève de la Fayette referred to them as a 'band of savage hooligans and worthless troublemakers' and the
Commandant en Chef Delrico Charlet even urged for the GEM to be classified as a 'criminal organisation' and called for its members to be 'exterminated like cockroaches for the safety and well-being of the
Royaume'. Nevertheless, the GEM would, at least initially, retain its legal and recognised status under Purgation law.
The first piece of discriminatory legislation against the
Dysfonctionnel, however, would soon come to be debated and enacted by the EDP Government on 16 February 1990. High Inquisitor Geneviève proposed the issuance of Executive Order (EO) No. 41 of 1990 on 5 February 1990, which she entitled the "Decree on the Protection of Healthy Bloodlines and the Preservation of the Social Integrity of the Genetic Quality of the Nation". Shortly after she proposed EO 41/1990, over the course of the next two weeks, PICOS officers and Purification Order paramilitaries held large rallies and marches in which free copies of Geneviève's treatise
La Solution Finale were distributed to crowds, as Geneviève and her allies (which included PIGC Director Marin and
Commandant en Chef Delrico) gave speeches to thronged members of the public, preaching the message that Purgatio's economic and social woes were attributable to the 'genetic contamination' of the
Génétiquement Dysfonctionnel, due to a problem of 'dysgenics'. According to Geneviève and her allies, the unchecked procreation of the
Dysfonctionnel over more than a century had the effect of 'weakening' the Purgation gene-pool and allowing the parasitical tendencies of the
Dysfonctionnel - such as criminality, indolence, and other 'unfit' characteristics - to 'pollute' and 'invade' the bloodlines of the 'genetically healthy' through inter-mixing, resulting in 'contamination of the blood' and the 'perpetuation of perverse and dysfunctional tendencies across the community'. According to Geneviève and her allies, everything from the Great Recession to the recent uptick of violent and gang-related crime was attributable to this problem of 'dysgenics', because the 'unchecked reproduction' of the
Dysfonctionnel throughout the Purgation populace had resulted in a growing number of criminals, delinquents, lazy and indolent persons who were unfit to work and drained and burdened the nation's welfare and social services, thereby contributing to the nation's economic and social decline. The High Inquisitor thus presented EO 41/1990 as an urgent measure needed to 'arrest the degeneration of this nation' by 'containing and quarantining the pathologies and perversities of the
Dysfonctionnel from spreading further within our society'; otherwise, she warned, Purgatio would be doomed to experience the same economic malaise and waves of violent criminality as before.
Under the slogan of "Protect Our Future!", PICOS and the Purification Order helmed a nationwide campaign intended to put increasing pressure on the government to enact EO 41/1990, with a thronged crowd of an estimated 400-500,000 demonstrators gathered in Ravaliér on 16 February 1990, surrounding the building of the Executive Directorate of Purgatio (EDP) on the date when the EDP was due to discuss and debate EO 41/1990, chanting the words
"Protégez Notre Avenir!" repeatedly and in unison. Following the EDP's meeting, the
Magnificus Dominus Chalon-Arlay de la Fayette signed and promulgated an amended version of EO 41/1990. The original version proposed by the High Inquisitor had prohibited all marriage, procreation, and sexual intercourse between the
Génétiquement Sain and
Génétiquement Dysfonctionnel, and limited the latter to having no more than two children in their entire lifetime. However, the final version of EO 41/1990 only prohibited all marriage and procreation between the two genetic classes. It annulled all existing marriages between the two groups, clarified that any future inter-marriages would be null and void in law, and made it a criminal offence to intentionally or recklessly contract any marriage or procure any conception between a 'genetically healthy' and a 'genetically disordered' person. Enabling clauses were also included in EO 41/1990, empowering the PPF, PICOS, and the Purification Order to take 'all necessary measures' to detect and punish violations of EO 41/1990.
EO 41/1990 was only the beginning of a slew of increasingly discriminatory measures which began to formally exclude the
Dysfonctionnel from more and more aspects of civic and public life, in law. Soon after, the EDP Government promulgated Executive Order (EO) No. 138 of 1990, or the "Decree on the Defence and Preservation of the Integrity of the Public Service", on 27 February 1990, which prohibited any
Génétiquement Dysfonctionnel from holding any positions in the Professional Civil Service and "any position of public office or public service more generally", such as teachers and nurses in government-run schools and hospitals, soldiers in the Purgation Armed Forces (PAF), and police officers in the Purgation Police Force (PPF). Individual government ministries and departments also began conducting massive department-wide checks and identity verifications to detect the genetic status of its employees, and it has been estimated that in the following months, over 35 million employees of
Dysfonctionnel classification were summarily drummed out of their positions and lost their jobs without severance or notice. The Cabinet Secretary of the Home Civil Service, Eugène-León de la Garde de Chambonas, would issue a public statement on 1 March 1990 praising the enactment of EO 138/1990, describing that measure as a 'badly needed reform necessary to ensure that our national public services remain in touch with the anxieties and sentiments of the ground' and a 'step in the right direction to gradually win back public trust and confidence in the Civil Service as an institution of honesty, probity, and integrity'.
The response from the GEM to discriminatory laws such as EO 41/1990 and EO 138/1990 was swift and negative. The President of the GEM, Clément Languet, and its Executive Director, Brigitte Clairvaux, both condemned the laws as acts of oppression and persecution targeting the
Dysfonctionnel for discrimination and exclusion, and on 3 March 1990 they issued a joint press statement promising swift retaliation through a 'programme of massive nationwide resistance and civil disobedience to draw this nation's attention to this intolerable injustice', declaring that the GEM would maintain its 'policy of resistance' until the PNL Government repealed its discriminatory laws and enacted 'human rights and equality legislation' protecting the
Dysfonctionnel community from further discrimination in law.
That announcement was indeed followed-up by a spate of disruptive protests and demonstrations organised by the GEM, designed to disturb and disrupt various public events to draw attention to the GEM's championed cause of seeking equality between the
Sain and
Dysfonctionnel genetic classes of society. Across March and April of 1990, GEM protestors blocked major roadways, thoroughfares, and walkways, occupied major parks, beaches, gardens, and other public recreational spaces, vandalised famous monuments and buildings, surrounded and picketed public events, and conducted 'sit-in protests' to occupy and shutdown certain institutions and organisations which the GEM objected to. The GEM targeted organisations and events which its members associated with the recent spate in genetic discrimination against the
Dysfonctionnel, including events hosted by the PNL party, the PICOS secret police force, Purification Order rallies, and events hosted by companies, schools, universities, professional bodies, and other societies which had implemented discriminatory or exclusionary policies against the
Dysfonctionnel. On 14 March 1990, the GEM's student activists and community leaders staged massive demonstrations which disrupted and shutdown classes and lectures in
L'Université de Savoy-Ducasse to protest its exclusion of prospective
Dysfonctionnel students. On 25 March 1990, the GEM stormed the premises of
L'Hôpital de la Fondation Éloi, a private hospital in Provence which had followed the government's lead in EO 138/1990 by firing over 28 nurses and doctors found to have a
Dysfonctionnel genetic classification amongst its staff, occupying and shutting down the hospital for four days until the police intervened and ejected all protestors on the 28th of March. On 5 April 1990, the GEM's protestors blocked a massive 26-lane freeway interchange in Ravaliér, shutting down the roads for the whole day through a series of sit-downs, lie-ins, and 'slow walking' demonstrations, resulting in a huge traffic blockage and obstruction which affected over 200,000 vehicles until the traffic authorities intervened to clear out the GEM demonstrators. On 11 April 1990, more than 180 GEM activists stormed
La Musée de la Croix in Auxiliora and vandalised numerous artworks, paintings, and sculptures, in protest of the support shown by the Board of Trustees of
L'Institut Purgatien des Arts et de la Culture for the PNL Government and its recent policy to remove all 'politically sensitive' artworks which had either been made by
Dysfonctionnel artists or which had portrayed the PNL Government and its recent anti-
Dysfonctionnel policies in a negative and/or embarrassing light. And on 16 April 1990, the GEM held a massive demonstration involving more than 10,000 protestors which surrounded the headquarters of
Le Crédit Commercial de Montfauçon in Avidité, demanding that the bank end its discriminatory company policies against
Dysfonctionnel customers, borrowers, and employees, picketing the establishment by surrounding the building, blocking all entrances and exits, and prohibiting customers, workers, contractors, and suppliers from entering the bank's headquarters.
PNL-aligned media outlets, especially the tabloids and news channels owned and controlled by the Courvoisier and De Sablé media empires, seized upon the disruptive demonstrations and civil disobedience tactics of the GEM to castigate the
Dysfonctionnel community as a whole as a perverse and dysfunctional community, exhibiting antisocial and socially obstructive tendencies which held up and obstructed Purgation society and burdened the Purgation people. PIGC Director Marin de la Trémouille gave a famous interview with the Courvoisier-owned
Halcyon News Network (HNN) on 2 April 1990, expressing the view that the disruptive actions of the GEM 'proved clearly and unequivocally, beyond a shadow of any residual doubt, that the PIGC was correct in identifying such persons as degenerative, obstructive, and burdensome to the community, biologically speaking, of course', going so far as to claim that 'with such antisocial behaviours as these rife and rampant within our society, is it any wonder at all that this country suffered a painful Great Recession and had to endure a recent uptick in organised crime and syndicated racketeering plaguing our urban areas and inner-cities?' And the High Inquisitor of PICOS, Geneviève de la Fayette, was even more explicit during her public appearance on the De Sablé-owned
Les Potins du Matin on 17 April 1990, in claiming that the GEM's disruptive protests 'unequivocally displayed the dysfunctional, destructive, parasitical orientation of all the
Dysfonctionnel', and suggesting that the EDP Government's recent policies 'did not go nearly far enough to protect public safety and safeguard public order in this nation', and promising that she and PICOS would do 'everything in our power to get our streets back under control and clear out our roads and public spaces of all unruly, disruptive, and disorderly elements, so ordinary Purgations can live their lives in peace and harmony once more'.
Hence, when the GEM staged a sit-in protest lasting from 25-30 April 1990 involving the forcible entry into, and occupation of, a prestigious private high school -
viz.,
L'Académie d'Excellence Scolaire de Savoy-Ducasse - which was intended to protest the school's refusal to admit
Dysfonctionnel student applicants who passed the school's strict entrance examinations, it ended up disrupting classes, experiments, high school sporting competitions, and various national examinations, and also resulted in violence breaking out between GEM protestors and various high school students and their parents and teachers. The PICOS secret police force responded swiftly, putting down the GEM demonstration with brutal force, making sweeping arrests of the protest's organisers with more than 180 persons being apprehended, beaten, tortured, and thrown into PICOS-operated concentration camps. High Inquisitor Geneviève would speak out on 29 April 1990 to condemn 'GEM terrorism and violence' for 'politicising the classroom and making victims of our children and their education'.
On 1 May 1990, PICOS and the Purification Order would retaliate by announcing a nationwide boycott of
Dysfonctionnel businesses and products. PICOS officers and Purification Order paramilitaries marched about the streets of Savoy-Ducasse across the month of May 1990, identifying all institutions and organisations either owned, in whole or in part, by
Dysfonctionnel persons, or which employed
Dysfonctionnel persons in prominent leadership or public-facing positions, by painting words like
Les Parasites! and
Les Cafards et les Rongeurs! on entrances, windows, and archways, vandalising and defacing the building, and smashing its doors and windows, harassing workers and stopping, searching, and intensely questioning and interrogating any members of the public attempting to enter and patronise such establishments. This city-wide boycott began in Savoy-Ducasse due to the recent events involving the disruption of classes at
L'Académie d'Excellence Scolaire de Savoy-Ducasse but quickly spread to Pétrus, Provence, and Ravaliér in the subsequent weeks and months. Over 75,000 businesses in Ravaliér were smashed and vandalised by PICOS and the Purification Order from May-June 1990, and tens of thousands of
Dysfonctionnel business owners or employees were harassed, pestered, or seized and beaten on the streets in broad daylight. Both PICOS and the Purification Order would also openly incite their own supporters to boycott
Dysfonctionnel-owned businesses, file complaints
en masse to banks to pressure them to withdraw banking, lending, and credit card payment facilities to such enterprises said to be owned or controlled by
Dysfonctionnel persons, and write letters and send petitions to companies and organisations which employed
Dysfonctionnel persons in leadership roles to demand their immediate retrenchment and expulsion.
The boycott campaign and the disruption and disorder which had preceded it prompted the PNL Government to act. The High Office of the
Magnificus Dominus would issue a formal statement on 8 June 1990 promising that the
Magnificus Dominus was 'looking into redressing the present situation, being cognisant of the outrage and anxieties of many Purgations worried about their futures and the well-being of their children and families', assuring them that the 'Executive Directorate will be taking swift and decisive action to calm their fears and assuage their justified anger over the recent spate of lawlessness and anarchy recently ignited across the country'. On 11 June 1990, the Executive Directorate of Purgatio (EDP) would enact Executive Order (EO) No. 287 of 1990, which expelled all
Dysfonctionnel persons from all licensed professional bodies, and prohibited the admission of any
Dysfonctionnel persons in future into professional bodies for regulated avocations and callings, such as barristers, solicitors, physicians, psychiatrists, dentists, chartered accountants, notaries public, architects, engineers, and the like. The situation would escalate when, on 20 June 1990, the Purgation National Congress (PNC) enacted a sweeping empowering legislation proposed by its Premier Jeanne-Emmanuelle de la Fayette, known as the "Law for the Restoration of the Public Square and the Efficacious Redress of
Dysfonctionnel Vandalism and Agitation", which passed its Third Reading by a margin of 274-0. That Law, also often referred to by historians and academics as the
"Enabling of Anti-Dysfonctionnel Exclusion Act" for short, stated simply that all Ministers in the EDP and all heads of any governmental ministries, governmental departments, public institutions, and regulatory bodies and agencies, would be given the regulatory power to "enact any and all measures whatsoever deemed to be necessary and/or beneficial, within the spheres of their institutional competencies, for the purposes of limiting, controlling, restricting, and/or suppressing any actual or potential riotous and/or disorderly acts of the
Génétiquement Dysfonctionnel or the risk of any such acts of such persons disturbing the public peace or disrupting public order". The
Magnificus Dominus signed that Act into law on 21 June 1990, which was to take immediate effect.
From June to August of 1990, governmental ministries and departments engaged in a policy 'arms race' of appearing to compete with each other to outdo other public bodies in enacting new policies and regulations in exercise of the sweeping new powers granted in the recent Enabling of Anti-
Dysfonctionnel Exclusion Act. On 21 June 1990, the Ministry of Education enacted Education Ministry Order No. 331 of 1990, which created a new mandatory curriculum for primary schools and secondary schools across the country known as "Genetic Integrity Education" intended to educate students on the dangers and menaces posed by persons of a
Génétiquement Dysfonctionnel origin, which included the treatise
La Solution Finale as mandatory reading. The next day, on 22 June 1990, the Ministry then enacted Education Ministry Order No. 339 of 1990, which rolled-out a plan for
Dysfonctionnel children to be incrementally expelled and phased-out of most public schools in densely-populated metropolitan areas, on the pretext of redressing an 'overcrowding' of the public school system. On 23 June 1990, the Media and Culture Ministry enacted Media and Culture Ministry Order No. 188 of 1990, which amended the prevailing Code of Conduct governing all media and entertainment outlets, prohibiting any publications which 'promoted, encouraged, or portrayed in a positive or sympathetic light, acts of the
Génétiquement Dysfonctionnel that tend towards a disturbance and/or disruption of public peace and/or public order". On 29 June 1990, the Home Office promulgated Home Office Order No. 516 of 1990, which revoked the long-term visas of any foreign nationals of a
Dysfonctionnel genetic constitution, mandated genetic checks for all future visa applications, and granted the Home Secretary sweeping new powers to revoke the Purgation citizenship of any
Dysfonctionnel, naturalised or non-naturalised, where such revocation is deemed to be 'conducive to the furtherance of national welfare and well-being'. On 3 July 1990, the Interior Department promulgated Interior Department Order No. 112 of 1990, creating new 'municipal maps' designating 'out-of-bound' areas for the
Dysfonctionnel in the most densely populated cities in the country, namely Ravaliér, Provence, Poisson, Limogens, Pétrus, and Savoy-Ducasse, with the 'out-of-bound' areas generally being public parks, beaches, recreational areas, children's playgrounds, shopping malls and popular shopping centres and marketplaces, and the like. On 15 July 1990, the
Conseil Royal des Arts announced a broad new censorship policy known as
Le Code Réglementaire National des Arts which prohibited any works of art which had either been created by an
auteur that was
Dysfonctionnel or which otherwise depicted
Dysfonctionnel persons or behaviours except 'in any negative portrayal which can only be reasonably interpreted as implying censure, condemnation, and/or denigration of such persons and/or conduct' from being exhibited in museums, cinemas, opera-houses, and theatres across the nation, and established a new censorship board to scrutinise new artistic works and creations against such standards. On 16 July 1990, the Transport Ministry enacted Transport Ministry Order No. 280 of 1990, which prohibited
Dysfonctionnel persons from using designated public transport networks during peak operating hours in certain major cities where those transport networks were identified by the Ministry as having been the recipients of a 'history of GEM disruption and disturbance of critical arteries of public transportation in the past'.
From 19-25 July 1990, PICOS and the PPF both established a slew of new curfews via municipal ordinances which prohibited the
Dysfonctionnel from leaving their houses during designated hours in the early hours of the morning or late in the evening, with powers to 'stop and search' members of the public and demand their identification cards to enforce the curfews, and empowering private citizens to make 'citizen's arrests' of
Dysfonctionnel persons found to be violating such curfews to be handed over to their local PICOS or PPF officer, to be sent to either prison or concentration camps. The Treasury announced on 26 July 1990 that it would be denying all government loans or assistance to any business found to be owned, directly or indirectly, in whole or in part, by
Dysfonctionnel proprietors, and the Commerce Ministry announced on 28 July 1990 that such businesses would also be barred from being a contractor or supplier to any public body and would no longer be awarded any new government contracts and concessions over any public works or projects in future. Home Secretary Joslyn de Lussan announced on 6 August 1990 that no new passports would be issued to any persons of a
Dysfonctionnel orientation and it would be made a criminal offence for a
Dysfonctionnel person to retain their passport instead of surrendering it to the Home Office. The next day, on 7 August 1990, she promulgated Home Office Order No. 815 of 1990, which not only promulgated the prohibition on
Dysfonctionnel owning or possessing passports, but empowered the Home Office to place any and all
Dysfonctionnel persons on the 'no-fly list' and the 'terror watch list' to empower Purgation law enforcement and national security agencies to place them under strict pre-emptive surveillance and scrutiny, with expanded powers for national security and intelligence agencies to monitor their movements, whereabouts, expenses, associations, and communications. On 14 August 1990, the Labour Relations Department announced that all
Dysfonctionnel persons would be prohibited from holding leadership positions in labour unions as foremen or executive committee members and would not be permitted to vote in union elections or ballots on any proposed industrial actions, and labour unions found to be in violation of that ban would face swift and immediate de-registration. On 18 August 1990, the Health Ministry promulgated Health Ministry Order No. 168 of 1990, providing that
Dysfonctionnel persons would be ineligible for any governmental subsidies for any medical treatments for what were listed as 'ailments of election and/or lifestyle choices', including lung cancer, ephysema, atherosclerosis, liver cirrhosis, stroke, and diabetes. On 21 August 1990, the Welfare Department followed suit with Welfare Department Order No. 563 of 1990, which made
Dysfonctionnel persons ineligible for unemployment benefits, job-seeker assistance, and limited the eligibility for child benefits to a maximum of two children per
Dysfonctionnel applicant. The Justice Ministry topped that on 25 August 1990 with Justice Ministry Order No. 1115 of 1990, which made
Dysfonctionnel persons ineligible for all criminal and civil legal aid. And on 29 August 1990, the High Office of the
Magnificus Dominus would issue a policy circular to local councils and provincial administrations encouraging them to build segregated housing facilities reserved only for the
Dysfonctionnel in far-away, isolated sections of municipalities and to ensure that
Dysfonctionnel persons, as far as possible, would not reside in close proximity to the
Génétiquement Sain in majorly populated city centres, and even amended EO 41/1990 on 31 August 1990 (via the promulgation of Executive Order (EO) No. 305 of 1990 or
"EO 305/1990") to impose an expanded criminal prohibition upon
all sexual relations or 'acts of sexual gratification or any and all libidinous or indecent conduct whatsoever, in public or in private' between the
Sain and
Dysfonctionnel, procreative or non-procreative, and irrespective of whether any offspring had been conceived or even could be conceived by such acts.
The GEM responded to the recent uptick in discriminatory legislation against the
Génétiquement Dysfonctionnel with further radicalisation, with the organisation's leadership under Clément Languet and Brigitte Clairvaux openly calling for 'forceful resistance to stand up and fight back' against the Purgation government and describing their community's state in the country as 'increasingly desperate and dire' in a joint public statement on 19 August 1990 and adding that 'we are not just second-class citizens, the government of the day has definitively and in no uncertain terms declared war upon our very existence in decree after decree after discriminatory decree' in another joint public statement on 27 August 1990. These statements culminated in enraged riots of frustrated and angry members of the
Dysfonctionnel community, especially young men and women who had recently been classified as 'genetically disordered' and saw themselves suffer a serious and deleterious loss of opportunities in society as a result. These pent-up frustrations broiled over into demonstrations that turned rowdy and violent in deprived areas of heavily-populated inner cities across Purgatio, with violent rioting engulfing the cities of Pétrus from 4-9 September 1990, Savoy-Ducasse from 8-12 September 1990, Provence from 9-19 September 1990, and especially in Ravaliér from 14-27 September 1990, which proved to be far larger in scale than the PPF and PICOS were able to contain. All in all, it has been estimated that the 1990
Dysfonctionnel Riots claimed over 270 lives, left more than 3,500 persons injured, and saw more than 16,000 homes, vehicles, and business destroyed in a nationwide wave of looting, arson, vandalism, robbery, and mass assaults and batteries on a truly unprecedented scale.
In the wake of the rioting, the
Magnificus Dominus Chalon-Arlay de la Fayette ordered a mobilisation of the Purgation Armed Forces (PAF) and the sending of tanks and armoured vehicles to occupy the most heavily and densely-populated parts of Ravaliér on 30 September 1990, and authorised the Chief of Defence Staff Orvelle d'Erlanger to order the PAF forces to use deadly force to quell and suppress any future violent incidents in the inner cities. In the wake of the heavy damage and destruction wrought upon the urban areas of the country in the aftermath of the recent bout of inner-city rioting, the extremists and hardliners in the EDP Government began to call for violent and pre-emptive action against the GEM and the
Génétiquement Dysfonctionnel community as a whole. High Inquisitor of PICOS Geneviève de la Fayette, in an interview with the far-right De Sablé-owned tabloid
La Voix du Royaume on 2 October 1990, called for the GEM to be branded a 'terrorist organisation' and called for the GEM's entire leadership and all members of its executive committee, including and especially Brigitte Clairvaux and Clément Languet, to be arrested and executed for 'incitement of terrorism, insurrection, and rioting', claiming that the 'entire GEM has blood on its hands' and holding the organisation responsible and culpable for the recent riots. The
Commandant en Chef of the Purification Order, Delrico Charlet, went further in his 5 October 1990 interview with the far-right Courvoisier-owned tabloid
La Petite Auxiliorienne, claiming that the time had come for the PNL Government to 'declare war on the
Dysfonctionnel vandals and parasites in our midst', calling them 'a swarm of worthless burdens, parasitical leeches, useless eaters, and cockroaches, we need a great cleansing in this nation, we need to arrest this country's swift decline and degenerative slide into anarchy, lawlessness, destruction, and disorder and finally restore the greatness of our people's potential, enough is enough with all this feckless and cowardly pussy-footing, the government needs to grow some fucking balls and put down all these mongrels, and for good'.
Under increasing pressure from PICOS, the Purification Order, and their right-wing supporters whose reactionary outrage came to be incensed and galvanised in the wake of the recent riots, the High Office of the
Magnificus Dominus issued a decree on 10 October 1990 revoking the registration of the GEM and issuing arrest warrants for the GEM's entire leadership. The GEM was also classified as a 'criminal organisation', with membership in, or association with, the GEM being prescribed as a criminal offence. That same day, Clément Languet, Brigitte Clairvaux, and the GEM's entire leadership would go into hiding and flee to the outskirts of the country where PNL governmental control was generally weaker, their whereabouts unknown to the authorities.
The PPF, PICOS, and Purification Order engaged in a sweeping nationwide crackdown on the GEM, and over the month of October 1990 alone, over 40,000 persons (mostly of
Dysfonctionnel classification, with some exceptions) were arrested on suspicion of being GEM agents or collaborators, and subjected to forced disappearances, secret prosecutions before 'security tribunals', torture in PICOS interrogations, and detention and forced labour in concentration camps. Numerous secret GEM meetings were discovered and disrupted as a result of governmental espionage, wiretapping, police 'tails' on suspected members, PICOS 'plants' and a wave of 'sting' operations, resulting in many more arrests of GEM members and supporters. PICOS and the Purgation security organisations' escalating crackdown on the GEM fuelled an increasing radicalisation of the organisation and its members, as the group had already lost any remaining legitimacy or tolerance it had previously enjoyed in the eyes of the Purgation government, its members began to mobilise and take up arms, organising themselves into a militant army which prepared itself to wage an insurgent guerrilla war against the PNL government. The GEM began to integrate and absorb socialist CPP fighters and militants who had fled to the outskirts of Purgatio following the PNL government's similar crackdown on the CPP and communist organisations back in 1988, many of whom had continued fighting a smaller-scale resistance against the ruling party of the day even after its core leadership had been liquidated and destroyed two years earlier. These former CPP fighters and former
L'Épée du Peuple militants now shared a common enemy with the GEM and its
Dysfonctionnel members, adding to the GEM's numbers and further preparing that organisation to wage its impending guerrilla insurgent war against the Purgation government and the PNL ruling party. Thus, by November 1990, it was estimated by the Purgation Security Service (PSS) that the GEM militia had anywhere between 450-600,000 fighters in its ranks, training and organising in secret in preparation for an upcoming larger-scale violent resistance against the ruling PNL regime.
Eventually, the inevitable civil war between the GEM and the Purgation government would begin in earnest on 18 November 1990, with GEM fighters and militants launching a string of guerrilla 'hit-and-run' attacks upon public institutions including police stations and government offices in the outlying provinces of Purgatio, namely the Districts of Villehardouin and Lusignan, quickly seizing control of the provincial capital cities of La Roche and Limogens by 21-22 November 1990. The Purgation Armed Forces (PAF), which consisted of over 2.5 million regular servicemen at the time, quickly mobilised and prepared to invade and occupy the outlying provinces, and began parachuting airborne forces and paratroopers into the cities of La Roche and Limogens from 30 November to 1 December of 1990, resulting in fierce street warfare between the PAF's elite rapid deployment units and GEM insurgents which only subsided when PAF tanks, armoured vehicles, and motorised infantry units arrived to occupy the inner city centres on 9 December 1990 and local armoured infantry garrisons arrived to relieve the city and to provide much-needed reinforcement and supportive fire. GEM fighters fled to the outlying townships and the rural outlying areas of the provinces of Villehardouin and Lusignan became hotbeds of insurgent activity which the PAF had great difficulty rooting-out and detecting through painstaking 'search and destroy' operations, city-by-city, municipality-by-municipality, a lengthy, drawn-out process which all but guaranteed that the Purgation Civil War between the Purgation government and the GEM insurgency would drag on for over a decade, with fighting between the PAF and GEM flaring up and subsiding periodically in the years to come.
In the midst of that violent and draining insurgency, three GEM operatives managed to sneak into a heavily-guarded PIGC research laboratory in Savoy-Ducasse and set off a deadly improvised explosive device (IED) on 16 January 1991, which killed 23 civilians, mostly PIGC scientists and researchers, and left nearly 200 more seriously wounded or critically injured. Amongst the dead was a sixteen-year-old high school student Xavier Marcel de la Falaise, eldest son of an esteemed, high-placed, highly respectable aristocratic family in Purgatio -
La Maison de la Falaise - whose family members had dominated the leadership of numerous major artistic and cultural institutions across the nation for centuries, including the board of trustees and governors of
L'Institut National du Patrimoine,
La Fondation du Quenoy des Arts,
Le Conseil Royal du Patrimoine,
L'Institut National d'Histoire de l'Art, and
La Musée Royale d'Auxerre. The young Xavier had been at the PIGC on an internship for young researchers and had been on track to receive a prestigious full-ride merit-based scholarship from
La Fondation Royale du Prince d'Auxiliora for his excellence displayed in the fields of genetics, human genomics, and biomedical research. That, coupled with the high-placed status of his family within Purgation high society, and the fact that his father Charles de la Falaise was on the board of trustees of
Le Conseil Royal du Patrimoine and his mother Sophie de la Falaise (née de Muset) was a prominent donor and philanthropist to hundreds of museums and art galleries across the nation through her family foundation
La Fondation Patrimoniale du Grand-Duc de Minière, pretty much ensured that the death of Xavier de la Falaise would become a huge
cause célèbre for the Purgation political right and the far-right of the PNL party.
The next day, on 17 January 1991, PIGC Director Marin de la Trémouille would issue a charged and incendiary public statement, calling Xavier's murder a 'most heartless and blood-thirsty massacre by mindless savages', listing out the boy's educational achievements and his prospective stellar career in the PIGC before concluding that 'it should now be clear beyond any doubt to all right-thinking Purgations that these
Dysfonctionnel primates, like blood-sucking leeches and parasitical roaches, seem to know only how to ravage, deprive, and destroy, they robbed from our community a truly talented, bright, intelligent, amazingly conscientious young boy, because the
Dysfonctionnel, being pathologically unable to produce or contribute anything in themselves, must necessarily resort to killing and destroying those who can just for a shred of meaning and relevance in their empty, useless, deeply unproductive lives'. The funeral for Xavier held by the De La Falaise family on 3 February 1991 in their hometown of Lyons also proved to be a highly publicised and politicised affair, with the footage of his mother Sophie breaking down into tears as her eulogy faded into incoherent sobs and his father Charles angrily calling for his son's memory to be honoured with a 'day of brutal reckoning' and pleading for 'the Furies to rain down holy revengeance upon the rabid
Dysfonctionnel dogs of this nation' going viral as they were shared and televised to millions across the nation by the Purgation press. High Inquisitor Geneviève de la Fayette would capitalise upon the death of Xavier, holding massive rallies of PICOS officers and PNL rank-and-file party members under the banners of
"Je suis Xavier!" and
"Nous sommes Xavier!" in all major Purgation cities from 8-15 February 1991, as the Purification Order's
Commandant en Chef Delrico Charlet organised huge paramilitary parades and marches in Ravaliér with awe-inspiring spectacles of synchronised drills and coordinated military processions, in which he gave charged and widely publicised speeches to his paramilitary soldiers calling for 'remembrance and revengeance for Xavier and his family'.