The Rouen Prosecutor General’s Office told the AFP that it had sent to the Minister of Justice a request for the waiver of immunity.
The Évreux prosecutor’s office has requested the lifting of the parliamentary immunity of Nicolas Bay, a member of the European Parliament (RN) who is under investigation for incitement to racial hatred, it announced on Thursday.
According to Le Poulpe, Nicolas Bay refused to comply with a summons from the police officers in charge of the investigation in the autumn. Bay was contacted by the AFP news agency on Thursday evening and did not initially comment.
The investigation into the RN MEP was launched in May following a report and complaint after a video taken outside the construction site of a mosque near Évreux was made public.
The 44-second video had been uploaded to Nicolas Bay’s Facebook account on May 5, according to the letter from the left-wing MEP in the Évreux city council.
“It is our Norman landscapes that are being defaced today and the political Islam that is spreading everywhere in France and also here in Normandy. We must put an end to this drift, we must stop communitarianism when we know that at the same time it imports criminality, crime and terrorism, as we saw a few months ago in the example of the murderer of Samuel Paty in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, who came from Evreux, from a neighbourhood very close by,” Bay said in the video, among other things. Ouest-France