• Cassandre Fristot will be tried this Wednesday before the Metz court.

  • This teacher and ex-member of the FN will have to answer for "provocation to racial hatred" for having brandished an anti-Semitic sign during a demonstration in early August.

  • She risks one year of imprisonment and a fine of 45,000 euros, the prosecution said in a statement.

A little special audience this Wednesday in Metz.

The criminal court of the capital of the Moselle will have to judge Cassandre Fristot in the early afternoon.

This teacher and former member of the FN will have to answer for "provocation to racial hatred" for having brandished an anti-Semitic sign during an anti-health pass demonstration in early August.

The dissemination of a photo of the sign, proudly brandished by its author wearing a beret, had sparked an outcry in the political class and organizations fighting against racism and anti-Semitism.

She faces a year of imprisonment and a 45,000 euros fine, the Metz prosecutor's office said in a press release.

The defendant will be assisted by Me Paul Yon, who has notably defended in the past Marine Le Pen, the city of Hayange led by the RN, and the negationist Robert Faurisson. In total, 13 organizations became civil parties, including the Representative Council of Jewish Institutions in France (Crif), Licra and SOS Racisme. “The Crif notes that before the hatred was killed, and that now it is revealed. Therefore, it comes under the blow of the law and must be punished ”, declared David-Olivier Kaminski, lawyer of the organization.

Cassandre Fristot, former local elected and former FN candidate in the 2012 legislative elections, was arrested after the opening of an investigation of flagrance by the Metz prosecutor's office the day after the demonstration.

The names of several politicians, businessmen and intellectuals, most of whom are Jewish, were targeted on this sign.

"Abject" sign

Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin denounced an “abject” sign and promised that this gesture would not go “unpunished”.

The Minister of National Education Jean-Michel Blanquer had announced to him that Cassandre Fristot would be "suspended pending disciplinary action.

es ”.

A German teacher, she taught as a substitute in several establishments in Moselle before her suspension.

According to Metz public prosecutor Christian Mercuri, she is "known for belonging to the far-right movement".

On the sign brandished at the Metz demonstration, the names inscribed framed the slogan "Mais qui?"

»And the exclamation« Traitors !!!

".

This slogan appeared following an interview granted in June on the CNews channel with a retired general, Daniel Delawarde, signatory of a column evoking “the disintegration” of France, published by the weekly

Valeursuelles

.

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