Four and a half years after the investigation was started, Imam Mohamed Tataiat was sentenced by the Court of Appeal in Toulouse to four months suspended imprisonment and a fine of about €30,000. According to the court, he had actually given an anti-Semitic sermon at the mosque in Toulouse’s Empalot district on December 15, 2017. On that day, he allegedly incited his followers to kill Jews in a speech read out in Arabic and streamed live on Youtube.
In the course of the police investigation, several interpreters had translated these speech with the following sentence: “The Last Judgement will only come when the Muslims fight the Jews.” According to Mohamed Tataiat, however, this was “not an order, but a warning that Muslims should not participate in this movement. Otherwise it will be the end of the universe”. This sentence was taken out of context”. La Dépêche