He just hung up the gloves. At the end of April, the far-right youtubeur Papacito, 37, gave his last lesson to the kids of the Toulouse Boxing Club, in a popular district of the Pink City, near where he grew up. However, this figurehead of the fachosphere has not come down from the ring, quite the contrary. For more than six months he has been leading a crusade in the form of a digital raid on Montjoi, a village in Tarn-et-Garonne, where he accuses the mayor of having favored a British resident to the detriment of a pig farmer, Pierre -Guillaume Mercadal.
His ultra-violent punchlines calling for “hunt weasel”, viewed more than 478,000 times, sparked a wave of harassment in May such that the elected official, Christian Eurgal, is now placed under police protection. Six complaints have been filed and the public prosecutor of Montauban, Bruno Sauvage, has opened an investigation “for public insult against a person holding public authority”, which has just been transferred to the national center for the fight against hatred. online from the Paris prosecutor’s office.
Last twist: while the debate on the security of elected officials has never been so lively, YouTube announced, on June 9, the closure of the Papacito channel (212,000 subscribers), accused of ” harassment “ and of “cyberbullying”. This succession of setbacks does not seem to move the person concerned, banned from Twitter since 2022. “My videos are reposted everywhere on YouTube and TikTok by my community, he tells us on the phone. This halt will just make me change my platform, force me to be smarter… For freedom of expression, I no longer bet on France, rather on China or the United States if Trump comes back… »
Until then, Papacito taunts “media hysteria” which led to its delisting, regrets that “Subsidized journalists are not interested in the substance of the case”. While he is careful to condemn the death threats made against the mayor by his white-hot fans, he also warns that “Montjoi’s Crusade” is not finished: “Defending the peasantry is the basis. There will be a third, a fourth video! A fight is played in twelve rounds. »
It targets the “fragile”, the “fiottes”, the “vegans”
For ten years, Ugo Gil Jimenez, alias Papacito, who defines himself as “identitarian, catholic and royalist”, deplores the devirilization of the West and targets leftists, sores, “fragile”, THE “fucks”, THE “vegans”. Foreigners too, when they are not enough “integrated” to his taste : “My wife is Congolese, but she is a true French patriot, Catholic like me, who shares the same traditional values as me,” he specifies.
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