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Twerking in a church in Paris: suspended prison sentence required for ten cyberstalkers

2023-05-24T20:19:29.362Z

Highlights: Suspended prison sentences of four to six months were requested Wednesday against ten men tried for online harassment of an influencer. The heaviest sentence was requested for three defendants for "aggravated cyberstalking", through messages of a nature. The Paris Criminal Court reserved its decision until 13 September. On February 16, 2022, Benjamin Ledig, then 18 years old, posted a video on the social network TikTok where he was seen twerking in front of the altar of the Saint-Paul-Saint-Louis church.


The heaviest sentence was requested for three defendants for "aggravated cyberstalking", through messages of a nature


The Paris Criminal Court reserved its decision until 13 September. Suspended prison sentences of four to six months were requested Wednesday against ten men tried for online harassment of an influencer, whom they accused of filming themselves performing a suggestive dance in a Parisian church. The heaviest sentence was requested for three defendants for "aggravated cyberstalking", through homophobic messages.

The prosecutor's office requested a four-month suspended sentence against the other seven defendants for cyberharassment harming the life of the influencer or leading to "doxxing", i.e. the free access of personal data and information without his consent. The Public Prosecutor's Office has also requested that everyone attend a citizenship course.

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On February 16, 2022, Benjamin Ledig, then 18 years old, posted a video on the social network TikTok where he was seen twerking (dancing undulating from the posterior) in crop top (high revealing the lower belly) in front of the altar of the Saint-Paul-Saint-Louis church in the fourth arrondissement of Paris, in the company of a friend. The young man had been sentenced in civil court after a complaint from the parish priest of the Marais.

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Following this publication - and another where the influencer used a copy of the Koran to clean his window or stall a piece of furniture - he had received several hundred thousand messages of insults and death threats, according to his lawyer Alexandre Bigot.

A "quest for buzz" in the face of a "tomb of hatred"

"Wounded" in their faith or "shocked" by a video made in "a sacred place", the defendants, aged between 19 and 43 and claiming to be Catholic, Muslim or atheist for one of them, said they acted under the influence of "anger" or by "group effect". At the hearing, all apologized to the victim.

"I've had a complicated year, there are a lot of people who resent me," said the influencer at the helm, in tears. The prosecutor evoked, on the one hand, two publications driven by "a quest for buzz, meaning, self" and, on the other, "malicious, violent remarks" contained in a "barrel of hatred".

"When you write on the internet, you don't talk to yourself, you write to the whole Earth. We must assume in reality, "she stressed. The defense pleaded for the acquittal or reduction of sentences, calling for "a pedagogical judgment", not a "trial on homophobia".

Source: leparis

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