Through Maxime Gil
Published on 10 Feb 21 at 8:00
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“Daesh, that’s it. »The controversial tweet of Marine Le Pen returns to the heart of the news Wednesday February 10, 2021. Indeed, the president of the National Rally is judged by the court of Nanterre (Hauts-de-Seine) for posting on Twitter on December 16, 2015 photos of Islamic State abuses accompanied by the message “Daesh, that’s it. The current MP disputed a parallel made by the RMC journalist Jean-Jacques Bourdin between his party and the Islamic State.
Bourdin’s sentence does not pass
In a broadcast of December 16, 2015, he had said during an exchange with Gilles Kepel : “I am going to come back to the links between Daesh and the National Front, finally the links … not the direct links between Daesh and the FN but this identity withdrawal which ultimately is a community of spirit, because the idea for Daesh is is to push French society towards identity withdrawal? “
Comments to which Marine Le Pen responded in his own way on Twitter, posting photos of a crushed Syrian soldier living under the tracks of a tank, of a Jordanian pilot burned alive in a cage and of American journalist James Foley, the decapitated body and head resting on its back.
Up to 5 years in prison and a € 75,000 fine
Gilbert Collard had also reacted. The same day, the current MEP and former member of the Palais Bourbon relayed the photo of a man lying on the ground, his head smashed, with this comment, accompanied by a text: “Bourdin compares the FN to Daesh: the weight words and the shock of sores! ”
The two chosen are judged for “Dissemination of violent images” after a three-year investigation, carried out following a report of the photos by the Minister of the Interior, then various postponements due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Such acts are punishable by five years imprisonment and a fine of € 75,000.
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