Ten people were arrested on Wednesday March 15 in France as part of the investigation opened for
"aggravated harassment"
after the broadcast in January 2022 of an M6 program "Forbidden Zone" devoted to radical Islam, a-t- we learned from a source close to the investigation, confirming information from France Info.
These ten people, placed in police custody, are suspected of harassment and threats against Amine Elbahi, who had testified in this report shot partly in Roubaix, the same source added.
Amine Elbahi, associative activist from Roubaix and jurist, had questioned the association "Ambitions and initiatives for success", suspecting it of preaching Islam instead of providing support courses in this northern town.
It was the gendarmes of the Central Office for the Fight against Crimes against Humanity and Hate Crimes (OCLCH), seized by the national online hate pole of the Paris prosecutor's office, who carried out these arrests.
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Another investigation was also opened concerning the death threats received by M6 journalist and producer of the show, Ophélie Meunier.
This component is handled by the Nanterre public prosecutor's office and the Personal Crime Prevention Brigade (BRDP) of the Paris judicial police.
This report sparked a lively controversy.
A year later, last January, two people interviewed for this program filed a complaint, denouncing fraud and incitement on the part of the authors of the subject and the channel.