Alain Soral is not done with justice in Alsace. The far-right essayist, released on January 10 after a trial for having a dumpling in the Colmar court, will be retried.
The prosecutor of the Republic of Colmar, Catherine Sorita-Minard, indeed indicates at 20 Minutes this Tuesday evening having appealed this decision. Alain Soral was prosecuted for public insult on the grounds of origin, ethnicity, nation, race or religion and public provocation to hatred or violence. The prosecutor of the Republic of Colmar, Catherine Sorita-Minard, had required six months of imprisonment suspended and put on probation as well as the obligation to compensate the civil parties.
Six-month conditional sentence required
An investigation had been opened in May on the initiative of the Colmar prosecutor's office after the photo was published. Licra had complained. The Israelite Consistory of the Haut-Rhin and the SOS Racisme association had brought civil actions.
To explain the release of the far-right essayist, the court had "considered that the dissemination by the defendant of the photograph of the dumpling taken in a non-memorial place and unrelated to the Jewish religion (...) does not constitute the offenses of public insult and public provocation with hatred ”, indicated then the parquet floor of Colmar.
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