This is a difficult exercise for the zygomatics.
Broadcast as a preamble to the trial, the videos of far-right influencer Ugo Gil Jimenez alias Papacito feature a man in a weasel costume hopping across fields, to the tunes of a nursery rhyme.
But at the Paris Criminal Court, in the crowded courtroom this Wednesday, we suppress our smiles.
Because it quickly appears that this mascot caricatures the mayor of Montjoi, Christian Eurgal, too “shrivelled” according to his lawyer Thierry Deville to appear at this trial which he brought for “provocation to hatred”.
At issue are videos broadcast on the defendant's YouTube channel, in which the latter takes up the cause of a farmer friend in conflict with the mayor of the small village of Tarn-et-Garonne.
In one of these “reports”, filmed by Papacito in November 2022, the 75-year-old elected official sees himself hunted down then finally sodomized, in the guise of a screaming weasel.
When the videos are interrupted, indignant grimaces erase the smiles.
Except that of the defendant, Ugo Gil Jimenez, shaved head and trimmed beard, satisfied with himself, arms crossed on his chest.
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