They are five to be summoned before the Paris Criminal Court on April 22, 2022 for threats and harassment.
Three men and two women.
They are suspected of having attacked Nicolas Hénin in 2019, after the journalist and former ISIS hostage requested the suspension of the Twitter account of a father of a victim Bataclan, author of messages calling for the execution of jihadists French detainees in Syria as well as their children on their return to France.
Five people for 20,000 tweets
Nicolas Hénin, journalist and hostage in Syria for several months between 2013 and 2014, lodged a complaint after receiving, in one weekend, 20,000 tweets threatening him and his family, as he told us here.
But the police officers of the crime repression squad first encountered the refusal of the American platform to lift the anonymity of the authors of the messages.
It took an appeal to the general prosecutor's office for Twitter to access the investigators' requests.
"Five people for 20,000 tweets, it is not completely satisfactory, comments Eric Morain, lawyer Nicolas Hénin, after the Journal du dimanche.
But it is all the same the demonstration that we can fight against hatred online.
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