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| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | DeSoucey, Michaela |
| Copyright Year | 2018 |
| Abstract | I n the summer of 2003, animal rights activists targeted the Santa Rosa, California home of Didier Jaubert, a Frenchborn lawyer and entrepreneur, and his American wife, Leslie. Their house was splashed with red paint, the locks on the house and garage doors filled with glue, and “murderer” and “stop or be stopped” spraypainted on the house and car. Jaubert was a partner in a soontoopen business venture called Sonoma Saveurs, a specialty shop and café, located in a historic adobe building on the plaza in downtown Sonoma. The café would feature a variety of locally made artisan food items, including foie gras. The day after the vandalism, an anonymous poster on an animal rights website called BiteBack wrote, “We cannot let this restaurant open . . . Jaubert needs to hear that people will not tolerate this atrocity.” Jaubert’s business partners were Laurent Manrique, the Frenchborn corporate executive chef of the Aqua Restaurant Group in San Francisco, and Guillermo and Junny Gonzalez, the owners of Sonoma Foie Gras. Two nights after the attack on Jaubert’s home, Manrique’s Marin County home was vandalized in a similar way by “concerned citizens,” as they were called on BiteBack, which also posted the two men’s home addresses. Red paint was thrown at his house, paint thinner splashed on his car, the garage door and car locks sealed with glue, and the words “murderer,” “torturer,” and “go back to France” spraypainted on his property. The next day, Manrique found a videotape in his mailbox. The video was shot from the bushes in his front yard and showed him in his living room playing with his toddler son. An unsigned note was taped |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.23943/princeton/9780691154930.003.0001 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://press.princeton.edu/chapters/s10708.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.23943/princeton%2F9780691154930.003.0001 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
