Grégory Chelli, whose real name is 39, was sentenced in four cases for malicious calls, death threats and slanderous denunciations between 2014 and 2016, targeting in particular the mayor of Lille Martine Aubry.

"Serious acts" committed "with a view to harming the victims and giving publicity to their suffering" and which, in part, "led to unnecessary research" on the part of the police, sometimes with " very important means ", declared the president of the tribunal.

The accused was convicted of fourteen offenses.

He was, however, released in the case concerning journalist Pierre Haski, for lack of elements incriminating him "definitely".

Ulcan was further ordered to pay a total of 18,000 euros in damages and 9,250 euros in legal costs to the victims.

Ulcan, who resides in Israel, did not appear for trial in December.

His defense, believing that he had not been summoned properly, had left the room at the start of the trial and had not returned to plead.

Tuesday, she was also absent.

His lawyer Gilles-William Goldnadel indicated his intention to appeal "on the legal grounds" concerning this quotation.

The court went beyond the requisitions of the prosecution, which had asked for two years in prison for "behavior of extreme violence".

The one who presented himself as a "Zionist militant" and a "vigilante" is "the incarnation of the coward", had supported the prosecutor.

In 2014 after a "standby" of a twinning between the municipality of Lille and an Israeli city, he called the police in particular, posing as Martine Aubry's husband, saying that he had killed his wife and was entrenched and armed.

Already sentenced five times, Grégory Chelli is the subject of several proceedings in France.

He risks in particular the assizes for a "hoax" targeting a journalist of Rue 89 and his parents, which had caused, according to the prosecution, the death of the journalist's father, who died of a heart attack after an intervention of the forces of the order at home in the middle of the night.

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