An 18-year-old individual was arrested and taken into police custody in Seine-et-Marne after having broadcast a rap clip proclaiming “We cut like Samuel Paty, without empathy” against a background of machetes and saws.
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Arrested Tuesday in Lagny-sur-Marne, the young man, known to the police, was still in custody Wednesday afternoon for apologizing for terrorism, concealment of theft and destruction by means dangerous for people, said the prosecutor. from the Republic of Meaux, Laureline Peyrefitte.
He will be tried Thursday in immediate appearance, according to a source close to the investigation.
The clip of the song entitled
Samuel Paty
, broadcast on YouTube, features rapper Maka surrounded by young people masked in black and armed with machetes, knives and saws.
As a backdrop, a burning car.
"
He contests the offenses with which he is accused,
" said the prosecutor.
The video was removed from the platform after it was released on November 11.
Two days later, a 14-year-old teenager took over the words of this song in class to threaten a teacher from a college in Savigny-le-Temple during a course devoted to freedom of expression.
An investigation had been opened for death threats against a person entrusted with a public service mission by the Melun prosecutor's office.
The teenager, in third grade, who also carried a Taser pulse gun in one of his pockets, was presented to a juvenile judge.
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