Marine Le Pen in court for images of ISIS that she relayed
Marine Le Pen.
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In tweets from 2015, in response to a journalist she accused of having drawn a parallel between her party and the jihadist group, Marine Le Pen had published violent images with the comment "Daesh, that's it".
She denounces a political trial.
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Arriving this Wednesday, February 10 at the Criminal Court of Nanterre, the far-right leader, finalist in the 2017 presidential election said she was "
deeply indignant at being prosecuted for (s') having protested against an amalgam made on a plateau television station between the RN and Daesh.
To make this amalgam is to downplay, to trivialize the appalling abuses of this terrorist and barbaric group
”.
In 2015, she was indignant at the comments of journalist Jean-Jacques Bourdin who evoked links between the FN and ISIS.
At the time, still a tweet, she denounced "
an unacceptable slippage
".
The photos showed a crushed Syrian soldier alive under the tracks of a tank, a Jordanian pilot burned alive in a cage and the decapitated body of American journalist James Foley with his head resting on his back.
These publications, a few weeks after the jihadist attacks in Paris and Saint-Denis
on November 13, 2015
(130 dead and hundreds injured), immediately raised an outcry within the left - then in the government - as well as the right, and beyond the political world.
The French MEP from RN Gilbert Collard, close to Ms. Le Pen, relayed the same day the photo of a man lying on the ground, his head smashed, with this comment: “
Bourdin compares the FN to Daesh: the weight of words and the shock of sores!
The prosecution had the same day launched two separate procedures after a report of these pictures by the Minister of the Interior at the time,
Bernard Cazeneuve
.
After three years of investigation, the two politicians are prosecuted on the basis of an article of the French Penal Code punishing the dissemination of violent messages likely to be seen by a minor: an offense punishable by three years in prison and 75,000 euros fine.
Marine Le Pen has always denounced a political trial concerning this affair, explaining that she was not the only one to relay her videos from the EI group but that she alone had to account for it in French courts.
Of course, I can imagine that these images are shocking.
But what is certain is that you journalists publish them.
And that no one has ever been prosecuted for this.
It is only Marine Le Pen who is being prosecuted.
We can draw the conclusion that I am obviously the victim of a political trial.
Marine Le Pen
(With
AFP
)
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