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Charlie Hebdo "bastards": the tweet of a Turkish official reported to justice

2020-10-28T11:23:53.512Z


The Interministerial Delegate for the Fight against Racism (Dilcrah) announced Wednesday, October 28 to AFP that he had taken legal action following the tweet of a Turkish official calling Charlie Hebdo, the latest one of which mocks President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, of " Bastards ". To read also: Manuel Valls: "By his insults towards France, Erdogan is the cantor of radical Islamism" In a tweet p


The Interministerial Delegate for the Fight against Racism (Dilcrah) announced Wednesday, October 28 to AFP that he had taken legal action following the tweet of a Turkish official calling Charlie Hebdo, the latest one of which mocks President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, of "

Bastards

".

To read also: Manuel Valls: "By his insults towards France, Erdogan is the cantor of radical Islamism"

In a tweet published Tuesday evening, the Turkish Minister for Culture, Serdar Cam, wrote in French: "

@Charlie_Hebdo_ You are bastards .. You are sons of bitches ...

" "

There is something indecent in the current context marked by the trial of the Charlie Hebdo attacks and by the tragedy of the assassination of Samuel Paty to fuel the fire by threatening Charlie's editorial staff

”, Frédéric Potier explained to AFP .

"Cultural racism"

The satirical newspaper published Tuesday on the social networks of "

a

" of its Wednesday edition, in which we see Erdogan, T-shirt and underwear, drinking a beer and lift the skirt 'a woman wearing the veil, revealing her bare buttocks.

Against a backdrop of strong tensions between Paris and Ankara, this drawing caused turmoil in Turkey, which evoked "

cultural racism

" and threatened France with "

judicial and diplomatic

"

reprisals

.

The interministerial delegate for the fight against racism, anti-Semitism and anti-LGBT hatred also directly questioned Twitter.

Does the "

nauseating

message

from this high Turkish dignitary comply with your terms of service?"

The @DILCRAH will seize justice on its side.

We will not give in to these attempts at intimidation.

#toujoursCharlie,

”he tweeted.

This raises the question of the responsibility of social networks,

” he told AFP, “

since there, these insults are broadcast on Twitter, which in its own rules of use prohibits harassment and behavior clearly illegal.

I kindly and firmly call on Twitter to enforce its own rules

”.

Source: lefigaro

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