His sentence was slightly increased on appeal.
A 31-year-old man was sentenced on Wednesday in Rennes to five months in prison suspended for three years for having harassed journalist Nadia Daam on the internet after a column.
In November 2017 on Europe 1, the journalist had described a forum as a “bin for non-recyclable waste of the internet” during a humorous column already relating to the cyberharassment suffered by two feminist activists on the site
Jeuxvideos.com
.
The next day, she filed a complaint after a flood of hateful messages, including that of the defendant who threatened "many rapes" of the journalist's underage daughter.
In 2019, this philosophy student and educational assistant was sentenced at first instance by the Rennes Criminal Court to five months in prison, suspended sentence and 2,500 euros for non-pecuniary damage.
The Court of Appeal therefore increased the sentence, adding a probationary sentence of three years, 4,000 euros in damages and the obligation to submit to psychiatric treatment.
“It took away part of my freedom”
This decision was expected "obviously too long" according to Eric Morain, the journalist's lawyer, declaring his "satisfaction to see the defendant forced to treat himself and to compensate" his client.
Nadia Daam, who now works at Arte, told the hearing that "everything had changed" after these online attacks.
"I received hundreds of messages, death threats, photomontages of me having my throat cut or raped, with the name and identity of my daughter," she said, moved.
"I no longer work the same, it took away part of my freedom," she confided, also recalling that she had to move after these threats.
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