Month: April 2022

The 19-year-old man from Ancona pleads not to know the limits of freedom of expression. He must undergo a psychiatric evaluation before he is sentenced on the merits on May 13. […]

On the student’s phone and computer, investigators from the regional criminal police’s anti-terrorism squad found numerous videos showing scenes of murder and execution, especially committed by the Islamic State.

The young man was brought before the Avignon Criminal Court on Friday April 8 on an immediate summons for public glorification of acts of terrorism. […]

The presiding judge, Céline Gruson, at least points to a conversation the accused had with his mother. “You told her that the most beautiful day in your life was the day of the attacks on Charlie Hebdo. More beautiful than your birthday!”.

“It was private, I was more open to say whatever was on my mind. I said it in a tone of humour” The Chairwoman continued, “Yet you had warning signs. Your Twitter account was closed several times?”. The accused replies “I thought that was so common for them, so I just created a new account”. […]

The prosecutor Jessica Lacoste considers the accused’s defence “an attitude that tends to deny the obvious”. She emphasises a “real deep connection” to Islamism, but does not oppose the psychiatric report that the presiding judge has introduced into the debate. She requests his continued detention pending a verdict on the main issue. […]Le Dauphiné

https://www.fdesouche.com/2022/04/10/avignon-un-etudiant-interpelle-pour-apologie-du-terrorisme-islamiste-maj-il-plaide-la-meconnaissance-des-limites-a-la-liberte-dexpression/

He is known for various offences, was twice sentenced to a five-year and three-year ban from living in France, and one day even tried to force his way into the reception centre in order to obtain a passport for Chad, where he claims to be from. However, the country does not officially recognise him as one of its nationals. […] He approached another homeless man that day who was talking to a friend on a bench, pulled a paving stone out of his pocket, threw it in his direction and then threw a second one.

When his victim asked him for an explanation, he pulled out a knife and stabbed him in the chest, shouting “Allah akbar”. The victim fled into the post office to sound the alarm, went back to get his dog and again encountered the accused, who tried to attack him again. The animal, a boxer mongrel, tried to defend its owner and was also stabbed three times in the head and side. The injured man was treated and taken to hospital. The dog was taken to an animal hospital.

“And now you might have something to say?” the judge asks him. “Yes, I’d like to ask you for a coffee,” the defendant says against expectation, before remaining silent again. “Outrageous, even indecent,” the victim’s lawyer, Julien Audier-Soria, is outraged.” This man is a dangerous loose cannon, very worrying for society.” The court confirmed, “The nature of this case suggests to us that you are extremely dangerous,” and sentenced him to six years in prison without parole (i.e. not the five years demanded by the prosecutor), combined with a new ban on residence in France for three years. […] L’Indépendant

https://www.fdesouche.com/2022/04/10/perpignan-un-migrant-clandestin-dorigine-africaine-poignarde-un-sdf-en-pleine-rue-avant-de-sen-prendre-au-chien-de-ce-dernier-et-de-lui-assener-plusieurs-coups-de-couteau/

Because of her reporting, a freelancer of the newspaper “Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung” (“NOZ”) has apparently been massively threatened. Two brothers had to answer for a robbery and several burglaries. They have since been sentenced to prison. Under the headline “Clan trial with Rolex”, the journalist had raised the question of how the family with Lebanese roots could finance their lifestyle with social benefits. Shortly afterwards, a motorcyclist allegedly fired into the air in front of her house. She then saw an unknown person videoing her house. The headlights of her car were smashed. During the trial, the partner of one of the accused allegedly whispered to her: “Shut up”. The journalist apparently left the courtroom shocked, the prosecution was surprised when no reporters came even to the pleadings. The “NOZ” editor-in-chief and the employee did not want to comment on the case.

https://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/journalistin-offenbar-nach-berichterstattung-ueber-clan-prozess-bedroht-a-480234ca-8f5f-43e6-abc7-ae69cfb5436c

While two 16-year-old girls were sunbathing on the beach of Veillat in Saint-Raphaël, they were insulted and pelted with stones by three other minors on Friday afternoon.

Two 16-year-old girls were sunbathing on the beach of Veillat in Saint-Raphaël on Friday. Suddenly they are insulted by three other minors aged 14.

One of the youths confronts the attackers. One of the youths counters the verbal attack by choking his victim, but this does not have any serious medical consequences.

The municipal police arrested the boys and took them to the police station in Fréjus, where they were questioned and picked up by their parents.Var-Matin

https://www.fdesouche.com/2022/04/09/saint-raphael-83-deux-jeunes-filles-qui-bronzaient-sur-la-plage-ont-recu-des-insultes-et-des-jets-de-pierres-par-trois-mineurs-lune-delles-a-ete-etranglee/

Mila will once again be confronted by her bullies. As Le Point reported on Saturday April 9, six people – men and women – will be in court in Paris on Monday and Tuesday, April 11 and 12, for posting hate messages and calls for murder on Twitter against the young woman, who has become the target of many internet users since posting a contentious video about Islam on social media. The 18-year-old will be present at the hearing, her lawyer Richard Malka told the press.

The weekly magazine reports that four women, including three mothers, had to appear before the Paris court for “bullying on the internet” and “death threats”. One of the accused should have been tried already in June, but had benefited from a procedural error.

The offending tweets had been published at the end of 2020. “This shows that Twitter is the network of hate. It is the network where hate thrives,” ruled lawyer Malka, whose statements were quoted by Le Point. According to the judge, Mila received “over 100,000 hate messages and death threats promising her to be tied up, cut, quartered, stoned and beheaded, with pictures of coffins, photo montages of beheadings [and] her bloody head”.

Some tweets, for example, suggest “smoking her”, while others want to sexually abuse her, the newspaper reports. Another internet user wants to “strangle” Mila with his “own hands”. “This has now become a sad daily routine,” said lawyer Malka.

As a reminder, the young woman became the target of an outbreak of violence after she responded to insults on social media about her sexual orientation in January 2020. This was done using a video in which she spoke vehemently about Islam. At the time of the incident, the sixteen-and-a-half-year-old student had been forced to leave her school. Since then, she has been living under police protection. Mila, who demands the right to blaspheme, was again the victim of violence on November 14, 2020, after she published a second contentious video, as reported by Le Point. In it, she had addressed the following to her critics: “And one more thing: Please watch your buddy Allah. Because my fingers are still in his asshole, I haven’t pulled them out yet”.

https://www.valeursactuelles.com/societe/affaire-mila-six-personnes-comparaissent-pour-harcelement-et-menaces-de-mort/

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“She thinks she has behaved like a good Djiboutian mother and doesn’t understand why they are spoiling her daily life.”

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Jurors and judges ruled: The law takes precedence over tradition. In Le Mans, a mother was sentenced to five years suspended prison for having her three eldest daughters circumcised during trips to Djibouti. Sociologist Isabelle Gillette-Faye, a specialist in female genital mutilation, sheds light on the significance of this trial.

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Isabelle Gillette-Faye, found the mother “very credible because she says she understood that circumcision is prohibited by law”. The sociologist has another explanation for the defendant’s mindset: “I think she remains convinced that it’s a religious necessity (the mother is of Muslim faith, ed.) and that she doesn’t understand why she’s being prevented from doing it.” It remains to be noted that the mother has had four other children since 2015. “She has not harmed any of them, girls or boys. So she seems to have understood the ban, but not the reason why,” Isabelle Gillette-Faye analyses.

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The shame is all the more bitter for the mother because she will now be under supervision to prevent her from starting to lay hands on her younger children again, and social pedagogical care will probably be imposed on her older children.TV5 Monde

https://www.fdesouche.com/2022/04/09/cour-dassises-de-la-sarthe-une-migrante-djiboutienne-mere-de-sept-enfants-jugee-pour-lexcision-de-3-de-ses-filles/

“I don’t understand this smear campaign,” said Isabelle Surply, a councillor (formerly RN) in Saint-Chamond (Loire), in an interview with Le Figaro newspaper published on Friday April 8. More than a month after she denounced the radical sermons of an imam in a mosque in the town, she continues to be the subject of a defamation complaint by the Conseil départemental du culte musulman and the target of threats. Following this complaint, she had been summoned to a voluntary hearing on March 4. “It seemed clear to me that the criminal file was blank and that after this interview there was a possibility that the case would be dropped,” she explains. This was nevertheless summoned before the investigating judge, who “considered” her indictment.

“I have only denounced dangerous sermons which the Minister of the Interior himself has described as unacceptable,” she outraged to the newspaper Le Figaro. Imam Mmadi Ahamada had said in his sermons, among other things, “You Muslim women, try to obey the finger of your husbands, stay in your homes and do not display yourselves in the manner of women in the times before Islam”. He was suspended. As he is a Comorian citizen and holds a residence permit as a “visitor”, he had been obliged to leave French territory (OQTF). However, this decision was overturned by the administrative court, which considered the reason of “threat to public order” to be unfounded. He was also able to carry out his preaching again.

Isabelle Surply claims that she got “hundreds of messages threatening her with death, rape and beheading”. She filed several complaints, but they were ” fruitless “. The police gave her a “direct contact number” on Friday April 8 to warn her of an imminent threat. On April 15, she will be questioned by the judge in connection with the defamation case.

https://www.valeursactuelles.com/regions/auvergne-rhone-alpes/loire/no_agglomeration/politique/une-elue-qui-avait-denonce-des-preches-radicaux-dun-imam-menacee-et-attaquee-en-diffamation/