Marine Le Pen said Thursday "sorry" for having relayed the photo of a man presented as one of the "murderers" of the bus driver in Bayonne, however inviting the media to "give the names" of " alleged murderers "and" alleged rapists ".
"My community manager made a speed error"
"I am obviously sorry for this man who, if he is innocent, (found himself) in this situation. But you, give the names," declared on France 2 the president of the National Rally. "Why don't the media give the names of the alleged killers, the alleged rapists?" Asked the far-right leader. "My community manager made a speed error" and the Facebook message "was immediately removed from elsewhere," she said.
A 29-year-old man filed a complaint Monday for "defamation" and "slanderous denunciation", according to his lawyer, after the dissemination of a photo relayed in particular by Marine Le Pen, presenting him as one of the "assassins" of the driver of bus victim of a fatal attack in Bayonne. His photo has been widely relayed on social networks, in particular by activists and elected representatives of the RN. All have since deleted their tweets.
The young Bayonnais threatened and insulted since the facts
The portrait of this young Bayonnais had been published as well as the face of one of the four alleged attackers, now imprisoned, a thirties suspected of having hidden the two potential perpetrators in his apartment in Balichon, the district of Bayonne, where the attack on driver Philippe Monguillot took place on July 5. Threatened and insulted since, the complainant keeps repeating, in videos on the Snapchat social network in particular, that he has "nothing to do with this story".
"If it had not been swarthled, it would never have been resumed, it is political recovery, total manipulation," protested AFP the brother of the complainant.