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Fines and citizenship courses for death threats against the boss of hunters

2020-10-22T17:46:09.321Z


Six men and two women were sentenced Thursday, October 22 in Saint-Omer to fines and citizenship courses for threatening the death on social networks the boss of hunters Willy Schraen, AFP learned from lawyers. These sentences are lower than the requisitions. Read also: Traditional hunts in the sights of MPs In May, the president of the National Federation of Hunters (FNC) was the target of thre


Six men and two women were sentenced Thursday, October 22 in Saint-Omer to fines and citizenship courses for threatening the death on social networks the boss of hunters Willy Schraen, AFP learned from lawyers.

These sentences are lower than the requisitions.

Read also: Traditional hunts in the sights of MPs

In May, the president of the National Federation of Hunters (FNC) was the target of threats on social networks after taking a position on the nuisance represented by cats, in particular by believing that trapping stray cats was beneficial to biodiversity.

I know where you live, be careful!

","

We will pull you like a rabbit and let you die on the ground

","

I will spit you like a big pig

"... According to the defense of the plaintiff, some 2,000 calls of threats and insults had followed his about.

"

Too light sentences

"

The eight defendants, aged around 20 to 70 and from several regions, were all found guilty.

But their sentences - fines and citizenship internships - are well below the requisitions of the prosecution.

The prosecutor Patrick Leleu had requested on September 24 suspended prison sentences of four to 12 months against seven defendants, and a six-month sentence against the eighth defendant serving a probation sentence in a another matter.

The defense lawyers had for their part asked for the release of their clients, believing that they had acted for the most part out of "

stupidity

".

To read also: Willy Schraen: "Hunting must not be defended but explained"

Willy Schraen deplored Thursday "

too light sentences compared to the danger represented by the use of social networks

".

He has expressed his wish to appeal.

For Me Agnetha Vytelingum, lawyer of a septuagenarian sentenced to a fine of 300 euros and to compensate Willy Schraen up to 200 euros, and of a young woman who received a citizenship course and will have to pay him 300 euros, it is a return to earth in the face of "

extravagant demands

" from Willy Schraen, who "

wanted to make this trial an example

".

She pointed to "

very disturbing coincidences

" between the hearing and the publication of Willy Schraen's book prefaced by the current Minister of Justice Eric Dupond-Moretti.

"

It is a form of judgment of Salomon

", estimated his colleague Me Stéphane Michel, recalling that "

the defendants only represented a very small panel

" of the messages sent ".

Source: lefigaro

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