Gérard Filoche relaxed after his tweet accused of anti-Semitism

Gérard Filoche, tried for a tweet accused of anti-Semitism, including Emmanuel Macron who had been evicted from the Socialist Party in November 2017, was released Wednesday by the Criminal Court of Paris.

A photomontage already diffused by the site of Alain Soral. The former representative of the left wing of the PS was prosecuted for public provocation to hatred or violence for tweeting, November 17, 2017, a photomontage previously broadcast on the site of the essayist far right Alain Soral , "Equality and reconciliation". Emmanuel Macron was seen there, his arms raised in front of a terrestrial globe, his arm encircled by a Nazi-style armband adorned with a dollar instead of a swastika. All against the backdrop of American and Israeli flags and photos of businessman Patrick Drahi, banker Jacob Rothschild and economist Jacques Attali, and the slogan "On the march towards global chaos".

"Particularly shocking and appalling may be the diffusion of this montage by Gérard Filoche, the context of the sending of this montage does not confer on him the scope of a provocation to hatred or violence", a notably estimated the 17th correctional chamber.

Filoche had pleaded negligence. At the hearing, on October 10, Gérard Filoche, one of the founding members of SOS Racisme, pleaded negligence and lack of "vigilance", ensuring he tweeted on seeing only Emmanuel Macron and not the back -plan of the image. He had explained to have decided to broadcast this montage found on the internet while he was absorbed in the writing of a book, "Macron and the social breakage", and that opened the congress of En Marche. The court noted in this regard "the obsessive nature of (Gérard Filoche's) resentment towards Emmanuel Macron", of which he "publicly criticizes the supposed neo-liberalism".

Alerted by his son, he had withdrawn his tweet less than an hour after posting it. In the wake of unanimous condemnations of the political class, the PS had announced his exclusion.

"This odious trial had no reason to be." "I am relaxed, this odious trial that was made me had no reason to be", welcomed on Twitter Gérard Filoche, who launched in January a new network, the "Left democratic and social" ".

As Master Tricaud says it is a total triumph: the 9 civil parties are dismissed! the prosecutor's office who had renounced all legal proceedings was followed! I am relaxed this odious trial that was made me had no reason to be! Fraternity and militant honor live the social

In court, the former Trotskyist, who published this year a "Manifesto against racism and anti-Semitism", had put forward a "whole life" turned towards anti-racism. The prosecutor, yet the origin of the lawsuits, had requested his release, believing that Gérard Filoche had committed a "serious inconsistency" by tweeting this unquestionably anti-Semitic montage but that a "doubt" remained after the debates about his "intention" to commit this offense.

Yet "known for his lack of regret and excuse even in case of very offensive remarks", the person has "presented a public apology," noted the court.