Dinghy (cry of joy)

Anecdote

The November 30th 2005, at the time of a question to the Minister of Justice and Minister for Justice to the National Assembly, the deputy UMP François Grosdidier used this term like a Euphémisme to evoke the share of the Immigration in its common (Woippy), then the phony marriages:

In my commune, at the time of a marriage on two, the Town hall resounds of dinghies. They are formidable moments of happiness, moments of human heat which we share with the families. But, for close to a marriage on five, there were only the engaged couples and the witnesses who did not know each other obviously. I saw of the husbands who had forty, fifty years of difference. The love can not know the age, but when he does not know tenderness, that poses problem.
On 170 000 foreigners who are installed each year legally on our territory, 34 000, is 20 %, do it by the marriage.
We answered by a law on the immigration which reinforced the capacities of the mayors to check the reality of the assent. The improvement is very real, even if, sometimes, the parquet floors are saturated to answer alarms of the mayor.
The biggest problem lies in the increase in the marriages concluded abroad: their transcription in France is automatic and is worth mechanically obtaining the residence permit. It is necessary to reinforce the methods of control, while respecting the right to the marriage of the people concerned, like announced yesterday it to the Prime Minister at the conclusion of the third interministerial oversight committee of immigration.
Mister it Minister of Justice, how will one control the validity and the reality of the marriages concluded abroad?

This euphemism, which caused sharp disputes on the socialist benches and communist, will undoubtedly form part of the Litote S which will remain, and of the symbolic systems terms in policy to imply a social question without evoking it directly, a coding to mean what cannot be known as expressly on a social question.

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