The correctional court of Versailles condemned, this Monday, an elected representative of opposition of Saint-Germain-en-Laye (Yvelines) to 4,000 euros of fine, including 2,000 suspended, and to compensate five associations of fight against homophobia after two tweets with homophobic insults.
Excluded from La République en Marche in September 2018, Agnès Cerighelli was condemned for homophobic insult for two messages of March 28 and 29, 2019. In the first, she speaks of "LGBT activists" as of an "infamous and perverse lobby". In the second, she compares the “rainbow flag”, a symbol of LGBT activists, to the wearing of the yellow star imposed by Heydrich on the Jews in 1941.
A classic of the rhetoric of #LGBT activists to silence elected officials and citizens: slander them in the media, accuse them of fake news, threaten them on #Twitter. Qd the government 🇫🇷 will it take seriously the dangerous methods of this infamous and perverse lobby? pic.twitter.com/ZTqsbGMDbS
- AgnesCerighelli (@AgnesCerighelli) March 28, 2019Justice calls for deletion of tweets
The elected official, on the other hand, was released from the leaders of “public provocation to hatred or violence because of sexual orientation” for a message of March 25, 2019 in which she described the “LGBT lobby” as “sect Making use of "lies and propaganda" to advance his cause. The elected candidate for mayor of Saint-Germain-en-Laye and who still appears as a LREM member on Twitter, is also forced to publish the judgment on her Twitter account within ten days.
Justice also ordered him to delete the tweet of March 28 within three days, that of March 29 having already disappeared. Finally, Agnès Cerighelli must pay 1,000 euros in damages to each of the five associations deemed admissible by the court. "Agnès Cerighelli has built her political career by spreading hate speech against homosexuals and Muslims on social networks," responded Etienne Deshoulières, lawyer for the Mousse association. "This decision demonstrates that it is no longer possible to make hatred a viable political strategy," he said.
A “hate provocation” for Christophe Castaner
Sunday, the Minister of the Interior Christophe Castaner announced to have seized justice for “provocation with hatred” after the diffusion of new messages of Agnes Cerighelli on his Twitter account. "To want Paris and Marseille to be run by North Africans of the Muslim faith is to betray France, its identity and its history," wrote Agnès Cerighelli in one of her messages.
The Republic is secular, France is Christian. I solemnly alert the @partisocialiste and @lesRepublicains. To want Paris and Marseille to be run by North Africans of the Muslim faith is to betray France, its identity and its history. # Elections2020 🇫🇷 pic.twitter.com/qfFnIPxGmg
- AgnesCerighelli (@AgnesCerighelli) February 16, 2020 Getting used to this kind of slippage, remaining impassive in the face of such disgusting remarks, is to gain hatred and push back the Republic.
I report these publications to the public prosecutor for provoking hatred, under article 40 of criminal procedure. https://t.co/IaweM8tul3
"Getting used to this kind of slippage, remaining impassive in the face of such disgusting words, is winning hatred and pushing the Republic back," tweeted Christophe Castaner in response, saying he reported the words to the public prosecutor.
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