THE candidate for the European elections on the Reconquête! list, Damien Rieu, was sentenced Friday in Nîmes to 8 months in prison for online harassment. The facts date back to April 2017, when he broadcast on his Twitter account (now renamed X) in the name of Damien Rieu what the plaintiff’s lawyers described as a “private video”.
Identity activist Damien Lefèvre, better known under the pseudonym Damien Rieu and candidate for the European elections on the Reconquête! list, was sentenced Friday in Nîmes to 8 months in prison for online harassment, we learned from the lawyers for the parties. The facts dated back to April 2017, when he broadcast on his Twitter account (now renamed took on the Snapchat network from Marion Maréchal.
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He subsequently published on the network the name and a good part of the telephone number of the complainant, at the time a journalist. Publications which had “resulted in a massive campaign of denigration, racist insults and online harassment, as well as numerous anonymous calls”, according to Antoine Ory and Mourad Battikh, lawyers for the plaintiff. They welcomed what according to them constitutes the “first conviction (of Damien Rieu) for facts linked to his use of the social network”
Damien Rieu’s lawyer, Me Julien Pinelli, declined to comment, particularly on a possible appeal by his client. In September, Damien Rieu was acquitted in Lyon for defamation of Karim Benzema, for a tweet associating the footballer with armed Islamist fighters. Damien Rieu’s X account currently has 255,000 subscribers. The identity activist, unsuccessful candidate for Reconquest in the 2022 legislative elections in Nice, appears in 12th place on the list of the Zemmourist party in the European elections, led by Marion Maréchal.