The lawyer for an association of relatives of victims of the November 13 attacks announced that they had filed a complaint on Wednesday July 21 against Generation Z, a movement in support of Eric Zemmour *, for "
the use for electoral purposes
" of photos of victims on his Twitter account.
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The complaint, addressed to the Paris prosecutor on Wednesday afternoon, "
denounces the misappropriation for personal, political and electoral purposes
" of photos of victims, told AFP Me Jean Reinhart, counsel for the association 13onze15, confirming a information from France info.
The Generation Z movement, which brings together young people supporting the polemicist's candidacy for the 2022 presidential election, posted on its Twitter account on Tuesday a series of black and white photos, with a blue-white-red frame, of victims of 'terrorist attacks or various facts accompanied by the keyword #NosViesComptent.
These include victims of the attacks of November 13, 2015 in Paris, Eric Masson, a police officer shot dead in Avignon in May during a check on a deal point and Théo, an 18-year-old salesman fatally stabbed on July 10 in a telephone shop in Seine et Marne.
"
I just want to scream
"
"
By doing this Generation Z created harm and violates the legal provisions relating to the protection of privacy,
" said Me Reinhart, specifying that the complaint had been filed for "
use and misappropriation of images without the consent of the beneficiaries. right
”. "
We find this way of doing unacceptable, we do not want, in this period close to the trial and election, to be recovered by anyone,
" he lambasted. “
The unauthorized use of images of victims of terrorism is no way to pay tribute to their memory. It is desecration. Whatever the political color
", estimated the association 13onze15 on Twitter.
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The dissemination of these pictures sparked many reactions of indignation on Twitter.
"
I just want to scream
" in the face of "
this ignoble pro-Zemmour campaign using the photos of our deceased children
", indignant Georges Salines, father of a young woman killed in Bataclan.
Génération Z spokesperson Stanislas Rigault, interviewed by France Info, defended himself from any instrumentalisation.
"
If honoring the memory of the victims is recovery, nothing can be done about it
", he said, specifying that the objective was to "
mobilize on insecurity and pay tribute to the victims of murders and knife attacks
”.
Twenty people are to be tried for the attacks of November 13 (130 dead and 350 injured), the trial is due to open on September 8 and last about nine months.
* Eric Zemmour is a columnist for Le Figaro.