An investigation was opened Sunday on placards brandished the day before during the Paris demonstration against the health pass that the Paris police prefect had reported to justice as anti-Semitic, we learned from the prosecution.
The investigation targets the head of "public provocation to hatred or violence against a person or a group of people because of their origin or their belonging or not belonging to an ethnic group, a nation, race or religion, ”said the Paris prosecutor's office.
The investigations were entrusted to the brigade for the repression of personal delinquency (BRDP), he added.
At the end of the Parisian parades against the health pass on Saturday, the police prefect announced on Twitter to report anti-Semitic signs brandished by demonstrators to the courts.
The prefect had acted in application of article 40 of the code of criminal procedure, which requires any authority having knowledge of a crime or an offense to report it to justice.
A popular anti-Semitic slogan on the far right
In the photo accompanying the tweet, there are two signs with the inscription “Who?
".
This anti-Semitic slogan appeared on several occasions in anti-pass processions in France following an interview granted in June on the CNEWS channel to a retired general, Daniel Delawarde, signatory of a forum evoking “the disintegration” of France published by the weekly Valeurs contemporaine.
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To the question "who controls the media pack?"
", He replied" the community that you know well ", before being cut by the presenter, Jean-Marc Morandini.
A teacher, former member of the National Front and former local elected official, who demonstrated last Saturday in Metz with this slogan on a sign, accompanied by the names of politicians, businessmen and intellectuals for the most part Jewish, will be tried in September for provoking racial hatred.
A royalist activist arrested in Compiègne
In Compiègne, in the Oise, a man was also arrested on Saturday at the end of the demonstration, his shoulders encircled with a “royalist” flag and wearing a “bob and a T-shirt marked with a
Who?
with two devil's horns, ”we learned from the prosecution on Sunday, confirming information from Courrier Picard.
The man, "under 30 years old", will appear on October 26 for "public provocation to hatred or violence towards a person or a group of people because of their origin or their belonging or not belonging to an ethnic group, a nation, a race or a specific religion ”, specified the prosecutor, Marie-Céline Lawrysz.
Fight against public provocation to hatred #antisemitism ➡️
Signs “Who” brandished by an individual yesterday during the demonstration in Compiègne
➡️The individual arrested will be tried in October by the criminal court
↪️1 year imprisonment + € 45,000 d 'fine incurred pic.twitter.com/mrsZXYXuJC
- Prosecutor Compiègne (@ProcCompiegne) August 15, 2021
In police custody, he claimed "that the reference to the meaning of the
who?
on social networks had escaped him, ”she added.
His home was searched without any evidence being found.
The prosecutor reported on these prosecutions in a tweet, recalling that the respondent faces a one-year prison sentence and a fine of 45,000 euros.