A 29-year-old man filed a complaint Monday for "defamation" and "slanderous denunciation," his lawyer said on Tuesday, after the dissemination of a photo relayed in particular by Marine Le Pen, presenting him as one of the "assassins". of the bus driver victim of a fatal attack in Bayonne.
His photo has been widely relayed on social networks, in particular by far-right activist Damien Rieu, president of the National Rally, Marine Le Pen or other elected members of the movement. All have since deleted their tweets.
It has "nothing to do with this story"
The portrait of this young Bayonnais had been published as well as the face of one of the four alleged attackers, now imprisoned, a thirties suspected of having hidden the two potential perpetrators in his apartment in Balichon, the district of Bayonne, where the attack on Philippe Monguillot took place on July 5.
Threatened and insulted since, the complainant keeps repeating, in videos he broadcasts on the Snapchat social network in particular, that he has "nothing to do with this story".
"We were shocked to see this photo of our brother, I got a stomach ache when I saw that. If it had not been swarthled, it would never have been resumed, it is political recovery, total manipulation ”, protested to a correspondent the complainant's brother. He denounces the dissemination of his brother's face on "racist accounts".
"It is catastrophic for him what is happening"
The branch of SOS Racisme de Bayonne for its part announces that it intends to take legal action. "The family [of the young man] is completely stunned, it is catastrophic for him what is happening," said Monday Djamel Mohammedi, spokesman for the association.
Following the lethal attack on Philippe Monguillot, who died on July 10 at the hospital in Bayonne, four people were quickly arrested before being charged and placed in pre-trial detention.
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