The investigation was opened by the National Pole against online hatred (PNLH), for “death threats and incitement to racial hatred”, told AFP the prosecution. The videos, revealed on Twitter by the Young Guard, an anti-fascist group, and by Mediapart, show a man wearing a “Ben voir” cap, a tic of language from Eric Zemmour erected as a slogan by his fans, exercising with a sniper rifle.
Videos with a gun
“Well let’s see friends, who are we going to explode there? The young gaucho, the young communist, the young mental boon”, laughs the young man, before firing with a large caliber. Rifle in play, he then mimics the surprise “Ah, Emmanuel Macron!” and fires a second shot. In another video filmed in the same place, another young man targets the ex-spokesman of France Insoumise Raquel Garrido. Rifle in hand, he explains “to practice hunting wild Garrido” before firing, then firing a second time, evoking her husband, the LFI deputy Alexis Corbière.
Alexis Corbière and Raquel Garrido file a complaint
In the same sequence, the man openly imagines himself shooting “des antifas and leftists“, as well as on people of North African origin. “There are Algerian and Moroccan flags, I saw there, so we will hasten to shoot,” he blurted out. According to the newspaper Release, who had access to his private Instagram account, he introduced himself there until very recently as “military” and “Catholic”. A police source said Tuesday that “the Pharos platform, responsible for the fight against illegal content on the Internet, (had) been seized after reports from Internet users”.
LFI deputy Alexis Corbière and Raquel Garrido announced Tuesday that they had filed a complaint “for death threats and provocation to the commission of a crime”. “Today, the entire online fascosphere is targeting us one after the other, with a clear risk of taking action,” Raquel Garrido worried during a press conference in Marseille.