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Photos of Daesh abuses: Marine Le Pen and Gilbert Collard fixed on their fate this Tuesday

2021-05-04T09:05:45.503Z


At the hearing on February 10, the Nanterre public prosecutor's office requested a 5,000 euros fine against the two far-right elected officials.


Marine Le Pen and Gilbert Collard will they be condemned for having posted on social networks clichés illustrating the abuses of the Islamic State?

The answer lies with the 14th chamber of the Nanterre Criminal Court, which is due to make a decision this Tuesday, May 4, which promises to be particularly scrutinized.

The president of the National Rally (RN) has also already warned: in her eyes, the hearing which was held on February 10 was a

"political trial"

.

Read also: Marine Le Pen and Gilbert Collard on trial this Wednesday for tweeting photos of Daesh abuses

Not enough to disturb the representative of the public prosecutor, who demanded a fine of 5,000 euros against the defendants.

"Should we prosecute everyone or no one?"

It is not possible.

There is necessarily a choice to be made, and this choice is made according to the impact on public order that an action may have.

In this case, there was a disturbance to public order brought about by this affair,

”said the prosecutor during his indictment lasting three quarters of an hour.

"Daesh, that's it"

At the time of their publication, in December 2015, the tweets of Marine Le Pen and Gilbert Collard had sparked an uproar, to the point that the former had ended up deleting her post.

The latter indicated:

"Daesh, that's it",

and was accompanied by pictures of a Syrian soldier run over by a tank, a Jordanian pilot burned alive in a cage and a beheaded American journalist.

To read also: Does Marine Le Pen have the right to broadcast images of beheading on Twitter?

Gilbert Collard, for his part, posted the picture of a man on the ground, disfigured face, sunken skull, along with the sentence “

Bourdin compares the FN to Daesh: the weight of words and the shock of sores!”.

The two personalities indeed considered that the journalist Jean-Jacques Bourdin had made an

"unacceptable"

rapprochement

between the Islamic State and their political party.

"Gag procedure"

On February 10, the two elected officials, whose parliamentary immunities had been previously lifted, were tried on the basis of article 227-24 of the Penal Code, which provides that

"the fact of disseminating a message of a violent nature or of a to seriously undermine human dignity is punished by three years' imprisonment and a fine of 75,000 euros when this message is likely to be seen by a minor ”

.

At the hearing, the president of the RN and the MEP, however, claimed their right to

"disseminate photos, as shocking as they are"

in the name of

"freedom to inform",

in the words of Marine Le Pen. "

If tomorrow I am in front of an individual who denies the Shoah, I am perfectly capable of showing him a photo of the camps

", illustrated Gilbert Collard. Denouncing a

“gag order”

, their respective lawyers pleaded for acquittal. It is now up to the court to decide.

Source: lefigaro

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