The Franco-Israeli hacker Ulcan was sentenced Tuesday to two and a half years in prison for a series of extreme telephone “hoaxes” by the Paris Criminal Court, which also issued an arrest warrant against him.
Grégory Chelli, whose real name is 39, was sentenced in four cases for malicious calls, death threats and slanderous denunciations between 2014 and 2016, targeting in particular the mayor of Lille Martine Aubry.
"Serious facts" committed "with a view to harming the victims and giving publicity to their suffering" and which, in part, "led to unnecessary research" on the part of the police, sometimes with " very important means ”, declared the president of the tribunal. The defendant was found guilty of fourteen offenses but was however released in the file concerning the journalist Pierre Haski, for lack of elements incriminating him "in a certain way".
"The embodiment of the coward"
Ulcan was further ordered to pay a total of 18,000 euros in damages and 9,250 euros in legal costs to the victims.
The man, who resides in Israel, did not appear for trial in December.
His defense, believing that he had not been summoned properly, had left the room at the start of the trial and had not returned to plead.
Tuesday, she was also absent.
His lawyer Gilles-William Goldnadel indicated his intention to appeal "on the legal means" concerning this quote.
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The court went beyond the requisitions of the prosecution, which had asked for two years in prison for "behavior of extreme violence".
The one who presented himself as a "Zionist militant" and a "vigilante" is "the incarnation of the coward", had supported the prosecutor.
In 2014 after a "standby" of a twinning between the municipality of Lille and an Israeli city, he called the police in particular, posing as Martine Aubry's husband, saying that he had killed his wife and was entrenched and armed.
Ulcan risks the foundations
Already sentenced five times, Grégory Chelli is the subject of several proceedings in France.
He risks in particular the assizes for a "hoax" targeting a journalist from Rue 89 and his parents, which had caused, according to the prosecution, the death of the journalist's father, who died of a heart attack after an intervention by the forces of the order at home in the middle of the night.
He made himself known through his extreme phone hoax site ViolVocal.
From his Twitter account, which is now closed, he has claimed responsibility for several computer attacks or malicious calls targeting news sites or personalities accused, according to him, of having taken a stand against Israel.
