A 27-year-old anti-password protester, Eloi Fauvergue, was sentenced Tuesday, January 11, to three months suspended prison sentence by the Compiègne criminal court for “
public incitement to hatred or violence
” towards the Jewish community.
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On August 14, 2021, he took part in an anti-vaccine pass demonstration in Compiègne, displaying the inscription “
Qui?
"With the"
Q
"completed by horns.
A week earlier, the photo of a young woman wearing a beret, proudly waving a sign with the same logo during an anti-tax demonstration in Metz, had sparked an uproar in the political class and organizations fighting against the racism and anti-Semitism.
"But who ?"
The names of several politicians, businessmen and intellectuals, most of them Jewish, were targeted on this sign. These names framed the slogan "
But who?
"And the exclamation"
Traitors !!!
". This teacher and former RN candidate for the legislative elections, Cassandre Fristot, was sentenced on October 20, 2021 to a six-month suspended prison sentence for "
provoking racial hatred
". “
My goal was to support Cassandre Fristot for her courage to demonstrate. There was no interpretation. I supported freedom of expression. I found it beautiful and original to put horns on the Q du Qui
, ”said the defendant on Tuesday. He deemed "
surrealist
" toto have been placed in police custody "
for that
".
Eloi Fauvergue, arrested at the end of the demonstration with his shoulders encircled with a “
royalist
” flag, assured that he did not know the meaning of the incriminated logo.
“
I lived for a year in a religious community.
I did not have access to social networks or to television
, ”he said.
"
Yet you posted on Facebook in March, May and July 2021
", retorted the public prosecutor, Marie-Céline Lawrysz.
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"
Monsieur knew which community was targeted by this '' Who? ''
", She estimated.
"
It is a perfidious racism which feeds on good feelings
", she denounced, requiring 4 months of suspended sentence.
"
Nothing proves that he is targeting a particular community
", for his part pleaded his lawyer, Ludovic Sartiaux.
“
For the average citizen, the 'Who?' Cannot speak of hatred or violence against a community.
"
