The spokespersons of the candidate LR organized a press conference to respond to the cyberharm of which is the target one of his relatives. Three complaints were filed.
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Two months of the presidential election, they want to make a shot. After dissemination on social networks on 21 January of a video by the extreme right activist Damien Rieu, who rallied Eric Zemmour, showing that the elected representative of the Republicans (LR) Patrick Karam would hold “a double speech on Islamism”, the team of Valérie Pécresse tried to reply Wednesday 2 February.
In this video editing, it is in particular reproached to Mr. Karam to be close to M’hammed Henniche. The latter is in particular secretary general of the powerful Union of Muslim Associations of Seine-Saint-Denis (UAM 93) and very linked to the mosque of Pantin. The authorities reproach him for sharing on the Facebook page of the worship (followed by more than 98,000 people), on October 9, 2020, the video of Brahim C., the parent of the student who took Samuel Paty, the Professor of History-Geography of the College of Bois-d’Aulne, in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine (Yvelines), beheaded one week after, by a young Russian original Chechen 18 years old for showing His pupils of the caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad. “Patrick Karam fights Islamism on TV trays … yet it is a fervent support from Islamist Mohammed Henniche. He does not hesitate to pay tribute, he makes him applaud”, denounces the video published by the activist. ‘extreme right.
“I deleted hundreds of hate messages”
Since its dissemination, the Ile-de-France Regional Adviser claims to be targeted by a campaign of cyberland. “I was put on a target in the back, he denounced during a press conference on Wednesday, from the Headquarters of Valérie Pécresse. I deleted hundreds of hate messages, threats of death and violence. I suffer a surge. Some say that I only deserve one thing: “a ball in the head”. I have a woman, children … ”
Faced with these attacks online, Mr. Karam said fear a “act to act. They are turning on the fire.” In his viewfinder, in particular, Damien Rieu, Guillaume Peltier, who has just left LR to join Eric Zemmour and which relayed the video on Twitter, as well as Jerome River, which has left the national gathering. Counsel Thibault de Montbrial, also adviser to Patrick Stefanini – The Campaign Manager of Valérie Pécresse – announced that three complaints were going to be filed: two for defamation against Mr. Rieu and one for cyberharmen. “There are sixty-eight days left and will not be done,” Mr. Montbrial warned.
“Now, finished laughing”
“Mr. Zemmour is someone dangerous. If we, Republicans, we do not denounce it, who will do it? Now, finished laughing, launched Florence Portelli, spokesman of M me pecresse. Zemmour, it is not the union of the rights. It’s the extreme right, with far-right behaviors. “It’s rare that the right is tackling too Frontally at Eric Zemmour, knowing that his electorate could be seduced by him. Long, the Tenors LR were silent, even courteous with the far-right candidate. While continuing to fear its possible breakthrough, a portion of the right, however, believed, in private, that the maintenance of Eric Zemmour above a certain threshold could be very useful for allowing Valérie Pécresse to pass to the second Tour.
But at LR, some still have the memory of the attacks suffered by Alain Juppé during the primary in 2016, called “Ali Juppé”, and think it was able to count in his failure against François Fillon.