Eleven men and one woman will be tried in 2023 in Paris for suspicion of
"cyberharassment"
targeting the popess of reality TV Magali Berdah, the Paris prosecutor's office said on Thursday, confirming information from France Info.
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Targeted on social networks, in particular by rapper Booba, Magali Berdah had filed a complaint and obtained the opening in June of an investigation at the National Pole for the Fight against Online Hate (PLNH) of the Paris Court of Justice.
The
"concerted"
operation was coordinated by the PNLH and the Central Office for the Fight against Crimes against Humanity and Hate Crimes (OCLCH), with the support of the local judicial police, according to the prosecution.
"At the end, twelve people, one woman and eleven men, are summoned to subsequent hearings taking place in 2023 to be judged, in particular on the counts of aggravated cyberbullying and, for some, on grounds of religion, and death threats, for some, because of religion
,” said the public prosecutor.
"The custody of the thirteenth person has been lifted without prosecution at this stage
," the same source said.
“A feeling of immense relief”
Via a press release, Magali Berdah indicated that she welcomed
"this news with a feeling of immense relief"
before expressing her
"gratefulness to the investigators and the justice system who have fully grasped the gravity of the facts"
.
She adds:
“These arrests demonstrate once again that the Internet and social networks are not a lawless zone.
The hateful pack that rages there has forgotten all sense of respect and moderation.
She made a big mistake
. "
In another press release in mid-July, Magali Berdah accused Booba of targeting her on social networks for several months
"by false and humiliating publications"
.
“Since then, I have suffered mass online harassment”
, with thousands of daily messages, she confided.
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During a press conference in mid-September, she had qualified Booba, Elie Yaffa by his real name, as a
"stalker who calls himself a whistleblower"
and listed the fifteen complaints or supplements filed after the harassment that she l 'accused of having initiated.
The rapper for his part filed a complaint against X to denounce deceptive commercial practices attributed to Shauna Events, Magali Berdah's influencer agency, and an organized gang scam.
The Grasse prosecutor's office opened an investigation on September 6 into the first offense, entrusted to the Antibes police station.
Booba obtained a procedural victory in his conflict with Magali
Berdah
at the beginning of October with the retraction by the Marseille court of his request for the closure of an Instagram account of the artist.
“
Thirteen people, from Var, Moselle, Seine-Saint-Denis, Gironde, Hauts-de-Seine, Sarthe, Alpes-Maritimes, Corsica, Seine-Maritime and Paris, were taken into custody on Wednesday
,” the prosecution said.