Tried in immediate appearance, the 2 young people who had flocked the name of Mohammed Merah on a TFC jersey were sentenced Friday in correctional to 3 and 4 months of suspended imprisonment. On the back of the jersey was the number 7 corresponding to the number of victims of the terrorist in 2012.
Two men aged 20 and 22 were sentenced on Friday March 10, 2023 in correctional court in Colmar for apologizing for terrorism.
According to AFP, judged in immediate appearance, these two young people professionally integrated, “were sentenced respectively to 3 and 4 months of imprisonment” accompanied by a probationary sentence of 24 months, indicated in a press release the public prosecutor. from Colmar.
The younger of the two defendants, already convicted twice by the juvenile court, had repeatedly worn this jersey that he had had made. Last year, several people saw him with this jersey in Colmar.
The other young man had posted on Twitter “the photograph of his boyfriend wearing this jersey”,
according to the magistrate.
Also according to AFP, photographs of the flag of the Islamic State group and of Cherif and Said Kouachi as well as Amedy Coulibaly, the attackers of the January 2015 attacks against the editorial staff of Charlie Hebdo, in Montrouge and at Hyper Cacher, were found in their phones.
Investigators also spotted a photo of the youngest “shirtless”, with the caption “Mohammed Merah would be proud of me if he were still alive”, according to the magistrate.
The two condemned will have to pay 500 € in damages to the national office of vigilance against anti-Semitism and as much to the Representative Council of Jewish Institutions of France (Crif).
The photo of a man wearing a Toulouse Football Club jersey bearing the name of Mohammed Merah had circulated on January 6, 2023 on social networks. TFC supporters were outraged and the club denounced “abject and shameful flocking”.
The jersey therefore refers to Mohammed Merah, the author of several deadly attacks in Montauban and Toulouse in 2012. The number 7 corresponds to the number of victims of these attacks. The terrorist had finally been killed by the RAID.
Chance of the calendar, this condemnation comes as today is March 11, 2023 the 11th anniversary of these terrorist attacks.
