A municipal elected consultant of the Doubs arrested and positioned in pre -trial detention earlier than his trial for apology for terrorism and “Doxing” | EUROtoday

A municipal elected consultant of the left of the Doubs, Ismaël Boudjekada, was arrested and incarcerated pending his trial deliberate in July, specifically for the apology of terrorism, stated the Paris prosecutor’s workplace on the France-Presse (AFP) company, Thursday, May 8.

Confirming info from a number of media, the prosecution stated that Mr. Boudjekada had been “Arrested on Saturday at Mulhouse airport from Saudi Arabia, on the basis of two research mandates issued against him as part of two investigations from the Paris prosecutor’s office, which were brought together”.

“Already convicted of online apology in June 2024”this elected official of opposition to the municipal council of Grand-Charmont, close to Montbéliard, was to be tried on Monday in fast look, however the examination of the case was returned to July 3, added the prosecution. “In the meantime, the defendant was placed in pre -trial detention”he stated.

Mr. Boudjekada will probably be tried for quite a few offenses chosen in opposition to him, from November 2023 to November 2024: for the disclosure of non-public info exposing others at a threat, in his account on social community X and the harm of three individuals – “Doxing” – and 6 infractions of apology for an act of on-line terrorism, by means of many messages additionally disseminated on X.

In October 2024, when the army and political chief of Hamas Yahya Sinouar had been killed, the elected municipal official reacted by writing on x that“A hero is dead” and that “This martyr is one of the luckiest of us”. He additionally declared, in a video broadcast in August 2024 on X, that the loss of life of 1,218 Israelis, largely civilians, within the assault on the Palestinian Islamist motion on October 7, 2023, “Was a little deserved” and that “Everyone will be very happy when Hamas has finished the work”.

His X account, nonetheless energetic and whose final messages date from 1^er May, is adopted by practically 30,000 individuals. It can be adopted by greater than 380,000 individuals on the Telegram social community.

Mr. Boudjekada had been reported to the justice of the Minister of the Interior, Bruno Retailleau. The Montbéliard prosecutor, Paul-Edouard LALLOIS, had then instructed AFP that Mr. Boudjekada had not been within the Doubs for a very long time.