The militant journalist Taha Bouhafs - who had qualified the policewoman Linda Kebbab of "
Arab of service
" in a message posted on the social network Twitter in June 2020 - is judged Wednesday June 9 for "
public insult because of the origin
".
The hearing takes place at 1:30 p.m. in front of the Paris Criminal Court.
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"
It's really the world upside down, I will be
(sic)
tomorrow on the dock facing Linda kebab and the licra for: anti Arab racism
," wrote Taha Bouhafs Tuesday, June 8 on Twitter. "
I am accused of racism for having denounced the speech and the posture of a police unionist who denies the racism of the police and therefore makes the real victims
invisible," he continues.
“
Today at 2 pm at the TJ in Paris we will give our unwavering support to Linda Kebbab during her trial against the journalist Taha Bouhafs.
I recall that the latter had (sic) treated him as an "Arab on duty".
This form of racism must not go unpunished!
“, For his part tweeted Abdoulaye Kanté, a police officer very followed on social networks.
A postponed hearing
Taha Bouhafs was initially to be tried on April 7 but an imbroglio around his address had led the court to note the irregularity of his summons, it not having been made on time. The journalist could still have agreed to appear "
voluntarily
" but he had not done so. This had therefore led the prosecution to summon him again, for this Wednesday, June 9.
"
It's easier to make offensive tweets than to explain it to justice,
" responded Me Thibault de Montbrial, Linda Kebbab's lawyer, after the hearing on April 7.
“I was hoping he was a little brave.
I note once again that it is not ”
, had for her part lamented Linda Kebbab.
The Adama Traoré case as a backdrop
The facts relating to this case date back 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 relatives of Adama Traoré, Linda Kebbab is invited to France Info.
The national delegate of the SGP-FO Unit police union then accused Assa Traoré, Adama Traoré's sister, of “
taking charge
” of the death of George Floyd in the United States to assert her 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.
In a message posted the same day on Twitter, Taha Bouhafs had commented on the media intervention of Linda Kebbab, describing the policewoman as "
ADS: Arab on
Duty
", before deleting her tweet. In the process, Linda Kebbab had filed a complaint 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 at the time.