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Close to LFI, YouTuber Cemil Sanli received two fines Wednesday for going to a "forbidden gathering" and for not wearing a mask.
These fines were issued the same day he was participating in a demonstration.
He explains that he was not checked during the demonstration, and the prefecture claims that the check took place after the dispersal.
In Millau or Thonon-les-Bains, demonstrators were also surprised to have received fines without identity verification.
What happened on Saturday 5 December in Annecy?
On Wednesday, Cemil Sanli, former LFI candidate for deputy and YouTuber, received two fines at his home for participating in a “forbidden gathering” and not wearing a mask.
The tickets were issued on December 5 at 4:55 p.m., the day the Savoyard took part in a demonstration in the city center of Annecy against the comprehensive security bill, at the call of several trade unions.
However, he assures that he was not checked during the demonstration, which was authorized.
"How did they identify me?
He asked on Twitter.
I am beside myself !
😠
This day, surprise !, I received a 2x135 € fine after participating in the #StopLoiSecuriteGlobale legal event in #Annecy on 12/05/2020.
Gathering prohibited + not wearing a mask: LIES!
And how did they identify me ?!
It's delusional!
pic.twitter.com/ojSnk1h2AG
- Cemil Choses A Te Dire ▶ ️ (@Cemil) December 16, 2020
After
20 Minutes
, Cemil Sanli confides to be "beside himself".
“It has become too regular”, he continues, denouncing “pressure blows” and recalling having, for example, received a blow to the temple during a demonstration in March 2019 in Lyon.
He explains that he wore the mask during the demonstration on December 5, only removing it to smoke.
The prefecture argues that there was indeed a control in person
The prefecture maintains that Cemil Sanli was checked in person after the demonstration had dispersed.
He would have been checked while he was demonstrating, according to the prefecture, "on a second route which was not the subject of any declaration at the prefecture, which is illegal."
Another check this Saturday
A version contested by Cemil Sanli.
“I find that insane.
This is all wrong.
Let them put forward evidence, they don't have any.
However, that Saturday, he claims to have been checked once, but after the demonstration against the comprehensive security bill, while he was walking with friends.
He then saw “yellow vests” “being bothered by the police”.
He approached and explained that a police officer then asked him for his identity.
"You have to understand that the said check was not an identity check, I went to see the police who were wearing" yellow vests "and it was in this context that the gentleman asked me for my identity. , he explains.
He wrote down my identity on a piece of paper.
The policeman never told me: "You are committing an offense".
"
In Thonon, a demonstrator claims to have also received a fine without control
A few months earlier, in July, an LFI activist was fined at her home for participating in an unauthorized demonstration in Thonon-les-Bains, not far from Annecy.
Isabelle Naïm-Christin then explained to the
Dauphiné that
they had not been checked during the demonstration, which took place on June 13 against the violence, after the death of George Floyd.
Six months later, she still doesn't know how she was identified.
"About twenty people who were part of the" yellow vests "were amended, including one who had a mask, so not really recognizable, she explains to
20 Minutes
.
Obviously they had photos ”.
She thinks that certain profiles were targeted: “I made two-thirds of the demonstration alongside a person known locally, who is a member of the PCF, the CGT, he received nothing.
Apart from me, they are only "yellow vests" who received fines.
She challenged her verbalization, but has yet to receive a response from the authorities.
The prefecture did not provide details to
20 Minutes
on what happened on June 13.
In Millau, demonstrators had a similar story.
About 50 fines were sent after two protests in May.
According to the local police commander, quoted by Midi Libre, video protection “was only an identification tool, even if 99% of the reconnaissance had been carried out on the spot.
It is only a support to accredit the recipients of the report and not the other way around.
"
Jérôme Buil, the departmental director of public security, told France 3 that the facts “were noted by the police officers present on the ground.
This is not a video-verbalization but observations made at the places of gatherings.
The use of video surveillance images supported the initial findings made by the police.
"
The Toulouse lawyer seized by some demonstrators is still demanding access to the file, in order to know how they were identified.
Julien Brel questions the legality of the process if video surveillance was used.
“The Internal Security Code does not provide for this possibility,” he advises
20 Minutes
.
Two lawyers told
Liberation
after the Millau case that the use of video surveillance is possible, under certain conditions.
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