Host Valérie Benaïm.
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PIERRE-OLIVIER / C8
The facts took place on September 22 in Boulogne-Billancourt, in front of the C8 studios.
According to several witnesses, a man threatened Valérie Benaïm with death and targeted him with anti-Semitic insults.
Faced with the columnist of
Touche not at my post
, he would have said he wanted to "do battle with the Jews".
This man was sentenced this Tuesday to two months in prison suspended by the court of Nanterre (Hauts-de-Seine).
At the bar, the 33-year-old defendant admitted words "a little inappropriate" but denied what he had recognized during his police custody: having gone there because of the comments made by the columnist on the rapper Freeze Corleone, several songs of which, accused of conveying anti-Semitic messages, are being investigated for "provocation to racial hatred".
"Everyday anti-Semitism"
The defendant explained that he "did not know" Valérie Benaïm and assured that it was a "misunderstanding", recalling that he was considered "as Cotorep" [Technical Commission for professional orientation and reclassification, structure aimed at help the reintegration of people with disabilities], because of his "psychological problems, which earned him daily medical follow-up" and for which he was undergoing treatment.
Regarding the accusations of threats made online against the host, he assured not to have accounts on social networks and not "know how to write".
According to prosecutor Estelle Colin, who had requested four months suspended prison sentence and denounced remarks that fall under "everyday anti-Semitism", the defendant, who was accused of "repeated threats of crime or misdemeanor against people because of his religion ”,“ knew very well what he was doing ”.
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