The suicide of two teenage girls in paris has sparked off calls for, well, i’m not sure. It seems the girls were goths.
“Sadly the suicides don’t surprise me,” said Jacky Cordonnier, a French expert who advises the government on cults.
“There is a drift into Satanism. A structured movement with no scruples is trying to take over and manipulate the young, and it can lead them into this kind of extreme behaviour,” he said.
When the goth movement began in Britain in the 1980s, it expressed a more passive melancholy, said Cordonnier. But in recent years it has been transformed, and its extreme exponents in Death and Black Metal music flirt with a kind of neo-Nazi paganism.
Paul Aries, author of a book on the goth movement, said: “There is no question that fantasising over extremely morbid images to a very violent form of music can undermine young adolescents.
“What is more worrying is why so many young people choose to live out their normal teenage rebellion on this type of nihilistic and death-obsessed terrain. It is a symptom of something very sick in our civilisation.”
