2023-04-29 20:00:00
The complaint was filed Friday on the counts of “public and direct provocation to commit a crime or misdemeanour”, “provocation to discrimination, hatred or violence”, “threat and harassment”.
“It’s a simple complaint once morest X to which we have attached all the identifying elements on which we want the investigators to focus”, explained to AFP My Isabelle Wekstein and Clara Steg, lawyers at the Paris bar.
“We have identified individuals or identity groups who sent hate messages, even following the cancellation of the concert, towards our client,” she added.
The lawyers say they are continuing their “painful work” by going through social networks. “When a violent tweet has 500,000 views, we cannot consider that there is no responsibility behind it,” they argued.
Due to threats made once morest the artist and his audience, Live Nation, producer of Bilal Hassani’s tour, had decided to cancel the concert scheduled for April 5 in an old church desecrated for 500 years.
Opposed to this concert, the Lorraine Catholique collective had shouted “profanation”, in the middle of Holy Week, in a message on its widely relayed blog. Supported by Civitas, he called to “come and pray the rosary” before the concert, in front of the old church.
The Metz public prosecutor’s office had seized itself and opened an investigation on April 6 once morest X on the counts of “threats of offence” and “incitement to hatred or violence once morest a person because of sexual orientation” and of “public and direct provocation not followed by effect to commit a crime or an offense”, had indicated the assistant public prosecutor, Thomas Bernard.
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