Sylvia Bourdon, a former porn and horror-movie star, recieved a letter last Saturday in which she was offered a psychiatric consultation at the Maison-Blanche mental hospital in Paris.
The reason for the invitation being complaints to the interior ministry about "what's going on in my neighborhood"
Bourdon showcases what she calls "the chaos and crime in the streets" on several blogs through video-recordings taken from her windows. A few days later her apartment was razed by 10 young men. She reacts by writing the interior ministry and pleading them to guarantee her safety.
The answer:
Last Saturday she received a letter which made it all clear to her: ?Due to the various emails which you addressed to the Ministry of the Interior, the proper authorities required of us to contact you. If you wish, we can set up an appointment [with a Psychitarist] for you. I propose Monday August 20, 2007 at 2 p.m?, wrote someone from the hospital.
This last email was acted on at the request of the office of Mental Health Action of the Paris Police Prefecture, in particular the office responsible for involuntary admissions.
In France, she's now described as a xenophobic and racist because she wants to walk safely on the streets in France.
Bourdon is now moving to Greece permanently.
Source
http://www.lefigaro.fr/france/20070818.FIG000000710__paris_le_bureau_de_sante_mentale_veille.html
And to supplement this, here's some food for thought on the same subject
Psikhushka (Russian: психушка) is a Russian colloquialism for psychiatric hospital. It has been occasionally used in English since the dissident movement in the Soviet Union became known in the West. In the Soviet Union, psychiatric hospitals were often used by the authorities as prisons in order to isolate political prisoners from the rest of society, discredit their ideas, and break them physically and mentally; as such they were considered a form of torture.[1] The official explanation was that ?no sane person would declaim against Soviet government and communism?.