The photo of her, wearing a beret, brandishing a sign with very anti-Semitic overtones during a demonstration against the health pass in early August, had sparked an outcry in the political class and organizations fighting against racism and the anti-Semitism.
Cassandre Fristot, teacher and former member of the FN, was sentenced this Wednesday to six months in prison suspended by the criminal court of Metz (Moselle).
Prosecuted for "provoking racial hatred", the teacher did not come to her trial at the beginning of September, her lawyer having put forward threats against her and harassment from journalists. "It is a pity that she is not there, I would have liked to ask her a few questions", regretted the president of the tribunal, Marie-José Miceli, contenting herself with reading the statements of Cassandre Fristot made to the investigators during her custody. on sight. "I wanted to denounce the powerful, I blame them for their decisions and not their religious denomination," she said.
The prosecution had requested a three-month suspended prison sentence and three years of ineligibility.
The defense of Cassandre Fristot asked for his release.
In total, 13 organizations became civil parties, including the Representative Council of Jewish Institutions in France (Crif), Licra and SOS Racisme.
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Cassandre Fristot, former local elected and former FN candidate in the 2012 legislative elections, was arrested after the opening of an investigation of flagrance by the Metz prosecutor's office the day after the demonstration. The names of several politicians, businessmen and intellectuals, most of them Jewish, were targeted on this sign, adorned with the inscription "But who? "And the exclamation" Traitors !!! ". This slogan appeared following an interview granted in June on the CNews channel with a retired general, Daniel Delawarde, signatory of a column evoking “the disintegration” of France, published by the weekly Valeursuelles . To the question "who controls the
media pack
?
"And after several reminders, he replied" the community that you know well ", before being cut by the presenter, Jean-Marc Morandini.
Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin denounced an “abject” sign and promised that this gesture would not go “unpunished”.
The Minister of National Education Jean-Michel Blanquer had announced to him that Cassandre Fristot would be "suspended pending disciplinary action".
A German teacher, she taught as a substitute in several establishments in Moselle before her suspension.
