Several people, including the candidate La France rebellious to the presidential election, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, seized justice on Monday, November 15, in particular for death threats, after the publication by a small far-right group of a photomontage representing them targeted by a weapon fire, according to their lawyers, confirming information from
StreetPress
.
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On November 5, the Telegram channel "
Les Villains Fachos 2.0
" published a photomontage comprising nine portraits all having a gun sight on the forehead as a target, accompanied by a number of points. This publication followed an investigation by
StreetPress
, published a few days earlier, on members of the extreme right-wing group the “
Gallicane Family
”, which, according to the site, militates in favor of the far-right polemicist Eric Zemmour, who does not hide not his presidential ambitions for 2022.
StreetPress
had notably published videos in which people, presented as belonging to the “
Gallican Family
”, were shooting at racist portraits in a forest.
Photomontage of "Villains Fachos"
On the photomontage of "
Villains Fachos
", which qualifies the "
Gallican family
" as "
friend
", we recognize in particular Mélenchon, the editor in chief of
StreetPress
, a caricature of the prophet Mahomet, Anne Franck, the journalist Taha Bouhafs, and the caricature of the BIA Danièle Obono member who earned the newspaper
current Values
conviction for public insult racist.
“
These racist threats from the far right are increasingly worrying.
What is also worrying is the absence of reaction from the public prosecutor and the Ministry of the Interior, since the absence of reaction always favors the passage to the act
”, reacted with AFP Me Arié Alimi , who filed a complaint Monday in Paris against X, for death threats and provocation to commit unsuccessful offenses in the name of Mélenchon and the journalist Taha Bouhafs.
In the complaints consulted by AFP, he underlines that the message gave the name of a site which “
offers
” “
lethal weapons
”, “
without control and delivered by post
”.
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Danièle Obono was also to file a complaint for provocation to commit offenses and incitement to racial hatred, according to his lawyer Me Xavier Sauvignet.
StreetPress
editor-in-chief
Mathieu Molard made a report to the prosecutor on Monday, according to his lawyer Me Valentine Rebérioux.
In a press release dated November 4, his editorial staff denounced "
the cyberbullying campaign
" of which he was the victim after the investigation into "
the armed support of Eric Zemmour
".
