Former Prime Minister Edouard Philippe.

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The Tours public prosecutor's office required 70 hours of community service against a sympathizer "yellow vest", who appeared Thursday before the criminal court for threatening Edouard Philippe, then Prime Minister, on social networks.

"Someone will catch you sooner or later, that's for sure", wrote the defendant on Facebook on February 29, 2020, under a video of the former Prime Minister who announced the use of article 49.3 to pass the project of the law on pension reform.

"There is no doubt, these are threats"

The 42-year-old man was being prosecuted for "threatening to commit a crime or an offense against a person holding public authority", after a complaint from the Prime Minister's office.

“There's no question these are threats.

All words have a weight, we do not address the Prime Minister as his friends in the coffee shop.

On the other hand, your comment could have been an incentive ”, launched to the defendant the deputy public prosecutor of Tours, David Arnault.

"It was the expression of anger"

This sympathizer of the “yellow vests” father of two children, unemployed, who enjoys recognition as a disabled adult, admitted to being the author of this comment, evoking “a fed up”.

"It was the expression of anger, of a political expression, but in no way a threat", defended the defendant, who had been the subject of a search at his home in Indre-et -Loire in November 2020.

"I would never have made these comments if I had met Edouard Philippe," he added during the hearing.

His lawyer, Me Laura Izemmour thus pleaded the release considering that "the offense was not characterized".

Her client had "no intention of disturbing the peace of the Prime Minister", she explained.

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