A hierarchical organization, determined to overthrow the institutions, or "blabla" around watered meetings: two visions of the Barjols collective opposed Wednesday in Paris the trial of 13 of its members, suspected of having prepared an attack against Emmanuel Macron .
The first of these visions emerges from the elements gathered by the four years of investigation which led these 11 men and 2 women before the criminal court for terrorist criminal association.
“Give France back to the people”
At the hearing, the president listed them during the interrogation of Mickaël Iber.
The only defendant imprisoned, this 43-year-old former homeless man is part of the
"group of four"
arrested during a first dragnet, on November 6, 2018 in Moselle, when they were, according to the prosecution, about to take action against the Head of State.
On a screen is first projected an organization chart of the Barjols, seized during the investigation: there are the president, Denis Collinet, a
"treasurer"
,
"instructors"
and even a communication manager to whom is added a
"trainee ".
Each member had to have completed a
"form of
specified name and address as well as their
"race"
, their
"survivalist skills"
and their
"level of involvement"
, on a scale of 1 to 10.
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Mickaël Iber went well beyond, evaluating his motivation at 20 and specifying his objective:
"to overthrow this corrupt government and give France back to the people".
The president of the court also returned messages in which the desire to attack mosques or to attack migrants was mentioned.
Behind his box, Michaël Iber minimized.
"It was a lot of talk and party people,"
he said, bringing the meetings of Barjols to
"barbecues"
where people
"half-drunk"
who
"talk about everything and nothing"
.
He himself would have gone there only because there was
“a way to eat a little meat”.
At that time, in text messages or on Telegram, Michaël Iber threatened to
"kill"
migrants like
"Bobby and Clyde (sic)"
and claimed to be looking for
"toys"
, weapons, he admitted to the hearing.
"Bullshit"
"It's bullshit, I wanted to be interesting
," he said.
His lawyer wants proof that he had boasted of being able to cut off the electricity throughout France.
On the virulence of the messages, Michaël Iber deplores that we would no longer have
"the right to say anything"
.
"When we are not in the single thought of the government, we are either conspiratorial or ultra
-right," he added.
Another of his messages brought the debates back to the heart of the matter.
"Are you hot to catch the bitch?"
, he wrote on September 19 on Telegram, in reference to President Macron who will travel to the East in early November for the centenary of the armistice of the Great War.
In the box, Michaël Iber assures him: he only wanted to demonstrate and never
“wanted to kill the president”.
Have other members of the Barjols thought about it?
The presiding judge referred to a meeting of the
"group of four"
on November 5 in Moselle, during which a project
of "violent action"
was prepared .
The next day, everyone will be arrested.
Pressed with questions, Michaël Iber conceded that one of the participants, Jean-Paul Bouyer, ex-leader of Barjols,
“surely spoke”
of an attack against the head of state.
“Certainly there was a remark like that, but it was under the influence of anger”.
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On the reason for this reunion, Iber delivered hazy explanations.
He first assures that Jean-Paul Bouyer, who was then living in Isère, had come to Moselle to go and buy cigarettes and gasoline in Luxembourg.
“He comes from Isère to fetch gasoline?”
, the president wondered.
The defendant then recognizes that Jean-Paul Bouyer actually came to look for the weapons he had promised to obtain.
"He thought we would have weapons, but I had lied,"
assured Michaël Iber.
These weapons, he swore, were not intended to carry out an attack but were to allow Bouyer to protect his family
“against migrants”.
