Between messages of insult and death threats, the young man is attacked from all sides since his name is associated with a video showing a Basque beheading a rooster with teeth. He will file a complaint against his namesake.

The video had been widely shared on social networks. On Twitter, a man was filmed in June beheading a live rooster with his teeth, before spitting it smiling. The man has been identified and is now subject to prosecution, reports Le Parisien .

Attention, these images show an act of cruelty towards an animal and can shock:

Hasparren (64): Bixente Larralde, champion of Basque pelota tears the head of a rooster alive with teeth, the facts go back to June 2019. The Brigitte Bardot Foundation mandates his lawyer to file a complaint! Bleu_Basque @ @ @ SO_Paysbasque F3euskalherri @ ANTTONETXEBERRIpic.twitter.com / o5iGNtsEXb

- Daniel Raposo (@ DANIEL_R_64) August 9, 2019

Shocked by these images, the Brigitte Bardot Foundation, which works for the defense of animals, has announced a complaint. But by seizing the case and relaying the video on social networks, the foundation of the famous actress shared the identity of the suspect. The alleged perpetrator of this act of cruelty would be a certain Bixente Larralde, a Basque pelota champion.

His published address

Since then, his namesake is the target of harassment on the part of many Internet users. "I received the first insults on Friday, I could not see why, there were about twenty of them on Saturday with links to the famous video, I made the connection, we have exactly the same spelling, first and last name. I was unlucky, "said the young man of south-west of Mont-de-Marsan, in the Landes, to Sud-Ouest .

Messages of insult to death threats, the young landais and his family are attacked from all sides. "Netizens find me, I tried to reason with them but half do not understand," he regretted. Some Internet users have even managed to find his employer. "They told him to fire me because I'm a monster," Bixente tells the regional daily. Others have threatened to come the "mark of a rooster with a hot iron on the front", revealing his address online, he confided to France Blue Gascogne.

Four months after leaving the family home, the young man was forced to return to his parents, fearing for his safety. "We were shocked and he was too afraid to go home with all these threats," says Magali, Bixente's mother.

Complaint for "moral injury"

The young Montois has already deposited a handrail and is now preparing to file a complaint against his namesake for "moral damage", according to the local station. If the insults continue, the Landais plans to file a lawsuit against X.

The other Bixente Larralde, the man of the video, is also the target, with his family, of messages of insults, calls to hatred and messages of death, according to the floor of Bayonne. For his alleged act, the pelotari risk up to 30,000 euros in fines and two years in prison.