It is a bag of flour that could cost them dearly.
The YouTuber who claimed the flouring of Jean-Luc Mélenchon at the demonstration against the far right, Saturday in Paris, and his alleged accomplice must be tried on July 7 for "violence against a person in charge of a public service mission" , we learned this Sunday from the Paris prosecutor's office.
Placed in police custody on Saturday a few hours after the facts, this host of a radical right-wing political YouTube channel, posing as a sovereignist, was summoned to appear before the Paris Criminal Court to be tried for "Violence against a person entrusted with a public service mission". A second man will be tried alongside him for "complicity" in this crime. At the same time, the leader of rebellious France Jean-Luc Mélenchon indicated that he did not wish to file a complaint against the YouTuber, while warning that we were heading towards a “dirty and violent” 2022 campaign.
Saturday around 2 p.m., while responding to the press at Place de Clichy, the leader of La France Insoumise and presidential candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon had received flour on his face.
The founder of LFI had denounced a "cowardly" act which "could have been worse", also speaking of "great tension" and a threshold "crossed", a few days after the slap received by Emmanuel Macron during a travel in the Drôme.
Papacito targeted by a complaint from Mélenchon
In front of journalists who filmed him after his act, the YouTuber presented himself as a “sovereignist”.
"I do not believe in debate," he added, claiming "a gesture of protest, as many people do".
On social networks, Internet users quickly recognized him as the young host of the YouTube channel "Why does it suck?"
», Created in January 2020 and with 19,000 subscribers.
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After a first series of videos castigating immigration, the European Union, anti-fascist activists, the media and the Republic, the YouTuber has been carrying out in recent months interviews with personalities marked on the extreme right or "anti-system", notably a nationalist rapper, and a royalist "yellow vest".
Another far-right YouTuber, "Papacito", is meanwhile targeted by an investigation by the Paris prosecutor's office opened on Wednesday, following a complaint by Jean-Luc Mélenchon against his video simulating the execution of a voter LFI. “Papacito” defended himself with the magazine Valeursuelles by invoking the right to satire while acknowledging that the video was “extremely provocative”.