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Trial of the 2015 attacks: prison closes after death threats against a lawyer

2020-10-26T19:41:58.208Z


He had threatened with death on social networks a lawyer in the Charlie trial: a 54-year-old man was sentenced Monday, October 26 to three years in prison, including 18 months suspended Monday in Marseille. To read also: Attack near the former headquarters of Charlie Hebdo: at the Omar mosque, we castigate "this despicable act" Me Samia Maktouf, adviser to Lassana Bathily, the former Hyper Cache


He had threatened with death on social networks a lawyer in the Charlie trial: a 54-year-old man was sentenced Monday, October 26 to three years in prison, including 18 months suspended Monday in Marseille.

To read also: Attack near the former headquarters of

Charlie Hebdo:

at the Omar mosque, we castigate "this despicable act"

Me Samia Maktouf, adviser to Lassana Bathily, the former Hyper Cacher storekeeper in eastern Paris, taken hostage on January 9, 2015, lodged a complaint after receiving several public messages on his Facebook profile sent by this man under his name. real name.

This man was tried in immediate appearance before the Criminal Court of Marseille, where he resides, and placed under arrest warrant.

He was accused of having uttered death threats against the lawyer, claiming to defend the Prophet Muhammad.

The messages sent between September 20 and October 17 intensified on October 16, when Samuel Paty, a history and geography professor from the Paris region, was beheaded by an 18-year-old refugee of Chechen Russian origin, notes the complainant.

"The court is not afraid, but when you see these photos and these comments, you are afraid", declared President Patrick Gosselin.

Other videos and photos found on the Marseillais' computer and partly broadcast to the audience show him brandishing a machete.

A highly publicized lawyer

At the stand, the graying-haired 50-something apologized and expressed regret in an almost inaudible voice.

“I'm not like that,” he stammered, arguing that he had taken narcotics when he posted the threats online.

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Theft, sale and acquisition of narcotics, carrying a weapon: the president listed the twenty mentions in the record of this former homeless man born in Algeria, the first of which began in the 1980s. But since 2014, when he was released from prison, this "lost sheep" had no longer been convicted and was receiving treatment for addictions to various drugs, insisted his lawyer, Me Nicolas Lemoine.

According to him, there were “no material elements which could demonstrate” that his client “could take action”.

But for the prosecution lawyer, Me Yann Arnoux-Pollak, who underlined the sexist and racist content of the accused's remarks, this case illustrates the "vector of hatred that social networks can be".

Me Maktouf "is used to, she has thick leather (...) but this time, that's enough", added Me Yassine Yakouti, counsel for the Bar of Paris, who joined civil.

The assassination of Samuel Paty was, according to him, “a trigger”.

Highly publicized, Me Maktouf regularly represents civil parties in terrorist attack proceedings, defending the mother of the soldier assassinated by Mohamed Merah in 2012 and the families of victims of the Nice and November 2015 attacks.

Source: lefigaro

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