On July 14, 2016, Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel, a 31-year-old Tunisian deliberately drove his truck into a crowd of people celebrating France's national day in Nice. A total of 86 people were killed. The attacker was killed by police. At this time, a trial is ongoing in Paris against 8 persons charged with aiding the terrorist.
Today, police in the French town of Auxerre in the Yonne Department arrested a 20-year-old man for disseminating hateful messages on social media against the victims of that attack and supporting the attack itself.
The below article from today's local French paper, L'Yonne, le Republicaine, is translated by Fousesquawk.
A resident of Auxerre, age 20, arrested after a hateful message regarding the victims of the attack in Nice
Caption: The resident of Auxerre will be tried Wednesday, 14 September by the criminal court of Auxerre.
On the morning of Tuesday, September 13, The Auxerre police arrested a resident of Yonne* (Department in France) age 20, suspected of being the writer of a hateful message regarding the victims of the attack in Nice on social media. He will be tried Wednesday, September 14 in an immediate appearance**, by the criminal court of Auxerre. The defendant had already been convicted for expressing support for terrorism in 2020.
A young resident of Auxerre was arrested Tuesday morning, September 13, 2022 for having written a hateful message on social media on August 28, 2022, regarding the victims of the attack at Nice. He is suspected of having disseminated images of the truck that killed 86 people on the Promenade des Anglais (street) on social media, accompanied by the phrase, "Nissa Sh--, 80 fascists disappeared".***
As indicated by our colleagues with Nice Matin (newspaper), the national prosecutor in Nice had ordered the "opening of an investigation for support of terrorism. In light of the "place of residence" of the alleged writer of the message, the prosecutor's office of Nice "withdrew (from the case) in favor of that of Auxerre," the national prosecutor of Auxerre, Hugues de Phily confirmed. The case was assigned to the Judiciary Police of Auxerre, who carried out the arrest of the defendant Tuesday morning in the city center of Auxerre.
(Tweet by Christian Estrosi-Mayor of Nice)
"A few days from the start of the trial, some ignoble messages making reference to the attack on Nice are spread on social media. We are turning it over to the prosecutor. I call on the responsibility of those who disseminate (information).
I am thinking of the victims and their loved ones"
Insert above: "Nissa Sh--, 80 fascists disappeared".
The defendant, already known to police, is facing 10 years imprisonment since he is legally a recidivist. In 2020, a tribunal condemned him for the same (offense).
Immediate appearance Wednesday**
The resident of Auxerre, age 20, was brought before the magistrates during the day and placed in pre-trial custody, in accordance with the motion of the representative of the public prosecutor. He is charged, precisely, "with having publicly expressed support for an act of terrorism". He will answer to these (charges) Wednesday afternoon within the framework of an immediate appearance.
A hearing before the criminal tribunal of Auxerre, which comes as the July 14 attack trial, expected to last three months, enters its second week in Paris.
Translator's notes:
* Note: The word, "Icaunais" refers to a resident of Yonne Department. The old Latin word for Yonne is Icau.
** Immediate appearance refers to a legal provision in France whereby the case goes immediately to trial if the prosecutor's case is prepared. There are, of course, other conditions.
***Nissa is a reference to Nice's soccer team and its supporters.
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