This is the second time in a week that the French far-right website Réseau Libre has broadcast death threats. After a list of one hundred lawyers ” to eliminate “, a new publication on Monday July 8 attacks four left-wing personalities and a lawyer. And each time, a call to ” neutralize » accompanied by each person’s personal addresses.
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Communist senator Ian Brossat, MPs Manuel Bompard and Alexis Corbière, as well as former MP Rachel Keke saw their personal addresses revealed on the Internet, accompanied by calls to ” neutralize ” This is also the case of Yassine Bouzrou, a lawyer who notably defended the family of Nahel, who died at 17 during a traffic stop in Nanterre in June 2023, or that of Adama Traoré, who died in 2016 after an arrest.
On the Free Network website, the author calls for an attack on “ regularly personalities who assume their status as enemies: such as lawyers, journalists or second-rate politicians “. It is also specified that there is ” no guns required ” and that a “ good kitchen knife, or even a crossbow » may be enough.
The text is then followed by some suggested targets illustrated by screenshots with this message: ready to work : available addresses “.
Lawyer Yassine Bouzrou said he had immediately filed a complaint for criminal association with a view to committing terrorist acts. According to the French daily Releasethe founder of the Free Network site is said to be Joël Michel Sambuis, a 64-year-old far-right activist exiled in Russia.
First threats against lawyers who signed a column
Wednesday July 3, the site ” Free Network – The Patriot Networks » had already published an article entitled « (Very partial) list of lawyers to eliminate “, taking up the list of signatories of the platform published in the weekly Marianne the day before entitled ” Lawyers, we are forming a legal brigade against the National Rally ” The site wrote: ” To be sent to a ditch or to a stadium, these lawyers already declare that they do not respect the verdict of the ballot boxes in the event of a victory of the National Rally “.
In a press release issued on Friday afternoon, the Toulouse Bar Council reacted by protesting: of such a procedure in a state governed by the rule of law, which constitutes a call for the murder of lawyers “, reports Agence France-Presse (AFP).