The Évry Criminal Court on Wednesday sentenced a man to six months in prison for the dissemination of a video in which he threatened the prefects and directors of the Regional Health Agencies (ARS) of Guadeloupe and Martinique in the midst of a crisis linked to the coronavirus. obligation to vaccinate against Covid-19.
He was found guilty of incitement to acts of terrorism and acquitted of the counts of threatening and insulting persons holding public authority because
“the elements were not established”
, specified the president of the court.
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This man had broadcast on a WhatsApp group of West Indian colleagues a video montage of about a minute in which a synthetic voice called to
"track down"
the directors of ARS and prefects of Guadeloupe and Martinique by name and described them as
"dogs who deprive of your freedoms”
, all with a sequence of photos of riots.
At the helm, Didier.
E, 54, born in Guadeloupe, resident in Essonne and with no criminal record, argued that the video was
“a joke”
between colleagues.
"There was no intention on my part to hurt anyone
," he added.
A video that went viral
“There is absolutely no image in this video which makes it possible to doubt that it is not a joke”
, underlined the public prosecutor, who requested the sentence followed by the court, i.e. two years in prison, including 18 months suspended.
The video, shared, then went viral in both territories.
The prefects of Guadeloupe and Martinique as well as the two directors of the ARS and the ARS, as a legal person, had instituted civil proceedings in this case.
In the fall of 2021, the entry into force of the obligation imposed on medical personnel and firefighters to be vaccinated against Covid-19 triggered a protest movement in Guadeloupe and then in Martinique which extended to social demands. , leading to demonstrations and urban violence.