A 16-year-old high school student was indicted Tuesday, October 27 for apologizing for terrorism and provocation to commit a terrorist act after calling for “
the same fate as Mr. Paty
”
to be
subjected
to “
disbelievers
”, announced the Vesoul prosecutor's office .
The minor was indicted by the investigating judge of Vesoul "
for apology and provocation to commit an act of terror
", facts punishable by 7 years of imprisonment, announced to AFP the public prosecutor of Vesoul, Emmanuel Dupic.
"
He was placed under judicial control
".
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The suspect admitted in custody having written on a social network the message "
Any disbeliever wishing to smear Islam deserves to suffer the same fate as Mr. Paty Allahou Akbar
".
This message was published on October 20, four days after the assassination of Samuel Paty in an attack in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine (Yvelines).
“
We now know that any message posted on the internet can be followed up.
We therefore need a systematic repression of this type of message,
”said Mr. Dupic, without specifying the social network on which this message was posted.
The young man is "
unknown
" to the police and justice services.
According to the prosecutor, it is a person who "
is converted and who is radicalized, but who does not come from a Muslim background
".
A Koran and computer equipment were seized by the gendarmes.
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The investigation, which should make it possible to determine whether this message was shared or whether other messages of the same type were broadcast on the social network, was entrusted to the gendarmes of the Besançon research section, in coordination with the brigade of Lure's research.
The message had been detected and reported to the prosecution by the gendarmes of the N'Tech service in Belfort, specialized in the fight against cybercrime.
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