Journalist Taha Bouhafs is to be tried before the Paris Criminal Court this Wednesday, April 7, after calling police officer Linda Kebbab an "
Arab on duty
", in a message posted on the social network Twitter in June 2020.
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The facts go back exactly to Wednesday, June 3, 2020. That day, the day after a prohibited demonstration of 20,000 people denouncing “police violence” organized in Paris at the initiative of Adama Traoré's relatives, Linda Kebbab was invited on France Info.
The national delegate of the SGP-FO Unit police union then accuses Assa Traoré, Adama Traoré's sister, of “
taking charge
” of the death of Georges Floyd in the United States in order to assert his own interests.
As a reminder, Adama Traoré is a young man who died in 2016 after an arrest by the gendarmes in controversial conditions.
“
The root of the problem is this affair, with this young girl, Adama Traoré's sister, whose anger and suffering I understand at having lost her brother, who takes up an American affair that does not has absolutely nothing to do, neither in its history, neither in its substance, nor in its technicality,
”said Linda Kebbab.
A complaint for public insult of a racist nature
In a message posted the same day on Twitter, the journalist Taha Bouhafs - invested in particular in the denunciation of police violence -, commented the media intervention of Linda Kebbab by describing the policewoman as "
ADS: Arab of Service
", before 'delete his tweet.
In the process, Linda Kebbab had filed a complaint against Taha Bouhafs for public insult of a racist nature.
“
Racist and not courageous, he blocked me.
Enough of his incitement to hatred, his lies and manipulations.
I MAKE A COMPLAINT,
”she wrote on Twitter.
"I would love to be able to explain in detail in court, the reasons which lead me to say that this woman is an ar * be of service. Long live freedom of expression, ”
Taha Bouhafs then replied.
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