Updated on 04/07/23 at 9:11 p.m.
He will put an end to his lucrative initiative. The controversial kitty in favor of the policeman who killed the young Nahel a week ago in Nanterre will be closed on Tuesday evening, its initiator announced on Twitter Jean Messihaa far-right personality, former spokesperson forEric Zemmour.
The kitty, which brought together 1.5 million euros, will be “closed tonight at midnight”, he says in a video posted on the social network. Described as a “pot of shame” by several left-wing leaders, this collection of money on the GoFundMe site to help the policeman’s family was unexpectedly successful and sparked a lively debate.
The family files a complaint against Jean Messiha, two deputies also take legal action
According to several media, as Release or The Parisian, Nahel’s mother filed a complaint on Tuesday against Jean Messiha for organized fraud, misappropriation of the purpose of personal data processing and concealment of these two counts. The complaint considers that the author of the kitty “publicly and falsely presented Nahel as a repeat offender” but also that he “used to illustrate the kitty a photograph of a police intervention without having permission”
Before the announcement of its closure by Jean Messiha, the deputies Mathilde Panot (LFI) and Arthur Delaporte (PS) had announced the referral to justice to obtain the closure of the kitty. “This kitty is an insult to those close to Nahel,” said Mathilde Panot, leader of LFI deputies in the National Assembly.
On the right and on the far right, some politicians have on the contrary supported the kitty. “It’s an approach that I hear, that I understand, which does not seem to me to be contrary to our principles. On the contrary, that we support the family of a police officer who is also in a trial today, it does not seem shocking to me, “said the president of the Republicans (LR) party Éric Ciotti on Monday, without rule out contributing to it himself.
On the government side, Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne and her Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin felt that it was up to the courts to decide on its legality.
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