The OM boss immediately lodged a complaint.
Tried for death threats made on Twitter against the president of the Marseille club, Jacques-Henri Eyraud, and for having disclosed his address, a young man was sentenced Friday to one year in prison suspended by the Marseille Criminal Court.
Aged 23, Nassim H. was also ordered to pay twice a symbolic euro in compensation, one for each offense, and to pay 1000 euros for the criminal proceedings.
This student, who wrote under the pseudonym of "Petit Bambou", was prosecuted for "provocation not followed by effect to commit an offense or a crime".
Prosecutor Véronique Fabron stressed that the death threats in the tweet were "shivering" and reminded her of "real facts seen at the assizes".
"This procedure was an electric shock"
Her requisitions were followed, except for the removal from the Stade Vélodrome for a year that she had requested.
"It is not to OM which attacked (
the defendant
) but to Mr. Eyraud", explained the president, Jean-Jacques Bagur.
If Jacques-Henri Eyraud is regularly scratched on Twitter by supporters of OM, the context was tense that day, after a press conference where differences appeared between the popular coach of OM, André Villas -Boas, and the leader.
The subject: the appointment of a new advisor, Paul Aldridge.
"What I have done is serious, I completely agree," admitted the young man at the bar, short navy blue pants and a sweater of the same color around his neck.
“This procedure was an electric shock,” he added.
I rephrase once again my most sincere and real apologies to Mr. Jacques-Henri Eyraud.
"
Defense lawyer judges sentence "severe"
The court "sanctifies, by condemning, the gravity of the facts and stigmatizes the consequences which could have arisen from the incitement to violence", commented the lawyer of the Ligue 1 club Olivier Baratelli.
The lawyer of "Petit Bambou", Frédéric Pourrière, pleaded the partial alteration of the defendant, in depression at the time, and considered "severe" the suspended prison sentence.
Initially, the civil party and the defense had agreed to welcome Nassim H. to the OM Foundation if community service (TIG) was pronounced, but this was ultimately not the case.