The president of the Muslim NGO BarakaCity, Driss Yemmou, said Idriss Sihamedi, suspected of online harassment against a former
Charlie Hebdo
journalist
will be tried twice by the Paris Criminal Court for cyberstalking and public insult, he learned. AFP Friday 23 October with the Paris prosecutor's office.
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Placed in police custody Wednesday, a week after being arrested for similar facts, Idriss Sihamedi was presented to a magistrate "in
order to be given a summons by minutes before the criminal court for the count of harassment
" online.
The Paris public prosecutor's office has requested that he be placed under judicial supervision for these facts, which must be tried on December 18.
Idriss Sihamedi was also "
the subject of a summons by a judicial police officer of the head of public insult because of origin, ethnicity, nation, race or religion by word, writing, image or means of communication to the public by electronic means,
”added the Paris prosecutor's office.
The hearing in front of the press chamber is scheduled for January.
Accused of proximity to political Islam
The president of the charity, regularly accused of proximity to political Islam and targeted by a dissolution procedure, presented himself to the Paris judicial police on Wednesday morning to be heard as part of an investigation by the Paris prosecutor's office after the complaint of Zineb El Rhazoui, ex-collaborator of the satirical newspaper.
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Joined by AFP, Idriss Sihamedi's lawyer criticized "
the temporal nature of this custody, which did not allow the president to usefully prepare observations in response to the dissolution of BarakaCity
", initiated Tuesday evening by the government.
"
For the rest, I will not comment further on this affair: at the moment the person of Idriss Sihamedi is not the most important, it is the future of an association which helps two million disadvantaged people in the world,
”added Me Samim Bolaki.
Last week, Idriss Sihamedi was taken into police custody in Essonne as part of another online harassment investigation, this time after the September 18 complaint from RMC radio columnist Zohra Bitan.
She reported "
120 defamatory tweets
" posted on her Twitter account by Sihamedi.
The latter had taken to task the two women, to whom he blames their criticisms of Islam in the media.
In the Zohra Bitan case, he was released under judicial supervision on October 15 and is summoned to the Evry Criminal Court on December 4.
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