The Evreux prosecutor's office has requested the lifting of the parliamentary immunity of MEP (RN) Nicolas Bay, targeted by an investigation for provocation to racial hatred, he said Thursday, November 25.
"
I seized the public prosecutor with a request to implement this procedure for lifting of immunity,
" said the prosecutor of the Republic of Évreux Dominique Puechmaille to AFP, confirming information from the online newspaper Norman The Octopus.
The Rouen general prosecutor's office told AFP that he had sent "
a request for a release
" to the Minister of Justice.
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According to Le Poulpe, Nicolas Bay refused this fall to attend a summons of the police officers in charge of the investigations. Contacted Thursday evening by AFP, Nicolas Bay did not immediately follow up. An investigation targeting the RN MEP was opened in May following a report and a complaint after the broadcast of a video filmed in front of the construction site of a mosque near Évreux.
This 44-second video was posted on May 5 on Nicolas Bay's Facebook account, according to the report letter written by left-wing elected officials at the Evreux city council. “
It is our Normandy landscapes which today are disfigured, and political Islam which is spreading everywhere in France and even here in Normandy. We must put an end to this drift, we must stop communitarianism, when we know that it matters at the same time delinquency, criminality, and terrorism as we saw with the assassin of Samuel Paty in Conflans -Sainte-Honorine a few months ago, who was from Évreux, a neighborhood very close to here
”Declared Nicolas Bay in this video.
Outgoing regional councilor, Nicolas Bay was then head of the RN list in Normandy for the regional elections.
The Great Mosque of Paris had filed a complaint in this case.
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