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Tweets showing the horror of Daesh: Marine Le Pen and Gilbert Collard facing the judges

2021-02-09T19:13:14.124Z


According to the justice, these violent images and offensive to human dignity could have been seen by minors. The president of the RN and the


To make a good heart against bad fortune, such is his state of mind.

Convinced of being the target of a "political coup" and "baroque legal proceedings", Gilbert Collard decided to take advantage of it.

"We are offered a platform, well I'll take advantage of it!"

“, Warns the European deputy of the RN who must appear this Wednesday before the criminal court of Nanterre (Hauts-de-Seine) alongside Marine Le Pen, the president of the party.

Both are judged for "dissemination of a message likely to seriously attack human dignity, likely to be seen by minors", an offense punishable by 3 years in prison and a fine of 50,000 euros.

In question: images of abuses perpetrated by Daesh disseminated by Marine Le Pen and Gilbert Collard on their Twitter account in December 2015, in response to Jean-Jacques Bourdin who had established “not direct” links between the FN and the terrorist group Islamist via their "identity withdrawal".

These violent images shocked internet users

“An unacceptable and hurtful comparison.

It was therefore my duty to show what the horror of Daesh was in the context of the self-defense of freedom of expression, ”rewinds Gilbert Collard.

At the time, the deputy for Gard retrieved a photo from the Internet of a victim of the Islamic State group: a man lying down, disfigured, his head smashed and his hands tied behind his back (Marine Le Pen will do the same with three other photos atrocities committed by Daesh).

Then the parliamentarian disseminates the document on his Twitter account by “contextualizing” it with an ironic caption “The weight of words, the shock of sores”.

These violent images have shocked Internet users.

Several alerted the Pharos reporting platform and the judicial machine was set in motion.

Marine Le Pen and Gilbert Collard, targeted by two separate instructions, saw their immunity lifted, were indicted and then referred to the criminal court.

The magistrates believe that the two famous Twittos could not but be aware of the intrinsically attacking character to human dignity of these images, whatever the reason for their dissemination.

According to the examining magistrate of the “Collard file”, it would have been necessary for the latter to implement technical means to prevent his tweet from being seen by minors.

The fact - supported by the defense - that the prosecution cannot prove that minors have fallen on this image or that 5 out of 8 reports have intervened before… the appearance of the offending tweet, does not change anything in the eyes of the magistrate.

The pure and simple release pleaded

“The offense we are accused of is irrelevant and absurd.

What shocks me the most is the perversion of the exercise of criminal law ”, comments from the top of his 50 years of bar Gilbert Collard whose lawyer, Me Jean-Marc Descoubes, will plead the pure and simple release.

Ditto for that of Marine Le Pen.

“These tweets were a response to the outrageous parallel of Mr. Bourdin, in the field of political debate and controversy, freedom of expression governed by the Law of July 29, 1881 on freedom of the press.

The spirit of the text applied in this procedure, which aims at the protection of minors, is completely diverted ”, develops Me David Dassa Le Deist.

During the investigation, a medical expertise of the two indicted had been ordered by the prosecution and the judges.

Not without causing the amazement of those concerned.

“The expert was a specialist in transsexualism, what has to do with the horror of Daesh?

», Quips Gilbert Collard, who did not attend the summons.

Scandalized, Marine Le Pen had done the same.

This Wednesday, they intend to appear at the bar of the court to try to show that they did not commit the alleged offense.

A trial which should be followed by many media.

Source: leparis

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