An investigation was opened Tuesday on the publication by a small right-wing group of a photomontage representing several people, including the presidential candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon (LFI), targeted by a firearm, said Friday, November 19. the Paris prosecutor's office, requested by AFP.
This investigation was opened for death threats and incitement to hatred or violence.
The investigations were entrusted to the Central Office for Combating Crimes Against Humanity (OCLCH), which has a division for combating hate crimes.
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On November 5, the Telegram channel "
Les Villains Fachos 2.0
" published a photomontage of nine portraits all with a gun sight on the forehead as a target, along with 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 “
Gallican Family
”, which, according to the site, militates in favor of the far-right polemicist Eric Zemmour.
StreetPress had notably published videos in which people, presented as members of the “
Gallican Family
”, were shooting at portraits in a forest.
On the photomontage of "
Villains Fachos
", which qualifies the "
Gallican Family
" as "
friend
", we recognize in particular Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the editor in chief of StreetPress, a caricature of the prophet Mahomet, Anne Frank, the journalist Taha Bouhafs and the caricature of the deputy LFI Danièle Obono which earned the newspaper Valeursuelles a conviction for public insult of a racist nature. Jean-Luc Mélenchon, Taha Bouhafs and Danièle Obono filed a complaint, while the editor-in-chief of StreetPress Mathieu Molard made a report to the prosecutor. At the end of September, Danièle Obono and Mathilde Panot, another LFI deputy, had been victims of insults on a Telegram loop of "
Villains Fachos
".
They had filed a complaint for public defamation, sexist and racist insults.
An investigation was also opened and entrusted to the OCLCH.