The complaint against X was filed Friday on the counts of “public and direct provocation to commit a crime or misdemeanour”, “provocation to discrimination, hatred or violence”, “threat and harassment”.
The lawyers of singer Bilal Hassani, whose concert had been canceled in Metz after an outpouring of hatred, filed a complaint with the Metz prosecutor, AFP learned on Saturday.
The complaint was filed Friday on the counts of “public and direct provocation to commit a crime or misdemeanour”, “provocation to discrimination, hatred or violence”, “threat and harassment”.
A complaint against X
“It’s a simple complaint against X to which we have attached all the identifying elements on which we want the investigators to focus”, explained to AFP My Isabelle Wekstein and Clara Steg, lawyers at the Paris bar.
“We have identified individuals or identity groups who sent hate messages, even after the cancellation of the concert, towards our client,” she added.
The lawyers say they are continuing their “painful work” by going through social networks. “When a violent tweet has 500,000 views, we cannot consider that there is no responsibility behind it,” they argued.
A concert canceled on April 5 after threats
Due to threats made against the artist and his audience, Live Nation, producer of Bilal Hassani’s tour, had decided to cancel the concert scheduled for April 5 in an old church that had been desecrated for 500 years.
Opposed to this concert, the Lorraine Catholique collective had shouted “profanation”, in the middle of Holy Week, in a message on its widely relayed blog. Supported by Civitas, he called to “come and pray the rosary” before the concert, in front of the old church.
The singer and his mother had declared in mid-April to have “filed a complaint against Aurora, a far-right movement, against Civitas and against Discussion nation Metz”.
“It is the latter who made threatening remarks and wanted to carry out violent actions on the day of the concert”, detailed Amina Frühauf, the manager and mother of the artist on the set of “Quotidien”.
An investigation opened by the prosecution
The Metz prosecutor’s office had also self-seized and had opened an investigation on April 6 against X on the counts of “threats of offence” and “provocation to hatred or violence against a person because of sexual orientation” and “public and direct provocation not followed by effect to commit a crime or an offense”, had indicated the assistant public prosecutor, Thomas Bernard.
In this case, the associations Stop Homophobia and Mousse have also filed a complaint against the association of traditionalist Catholics Civitas for discrimination on the basis of gender identity.
