On June 7, a prisoner who was listening to religious songs at a high volume in the security wing of Aiton prison forced the guards to turn off the electricity in his cell. The guards had asked him to turn down the volume to no avail.
The man, who had been sentenced to 12 years in prison in February 2023 as part of the trial for the 2015 Bataclan attacks, began shouting the following phrases in a rage: “… you pigs, Islam will fight you, long live the Koran, Muslim until death…”. The day before, he had already attacked his guards, calling them “dogs” and “Islamophobic assholes”, among other things.
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The defence lawyer from the Clermont-Ferrand bar, Jean-François Canis, admitted the insults alleged, but denied the apologia his client was accused of. “Calling wardens pigs and telling them that Islam will fight them are certainly inappropriate words, but in no way a glorification of terrorism, especially when uttered by an exemplary prisoner who lost his temper that day.”
The man was sentenced to six months in prison without parole for the insult, and was acquitted of the charge of “glorification”. Le Dauphiné