LUI Anti -Semitic? Negationist? Before the Montpellier Correctional Court, who judges him, Monday, April 28, to challenge crimes against humanity and provocation to hatred, Yann L., a forty -something for silver hair, gray Jean and hooded sweatshirt, swears with vehement that it is none of this. To his 57,000 subscribers on Tiktok, this former director of a video game school, today unemployed, has gotten into the habit of discussing, face camera, in short videos on everything and anything: the war in Ukraine, “National Education (which) lies”, The food pensions, Roselyne Bachelot … Her strong audience brings to the unemployed, who lives in a village near Montpellier, a small supplement of income: 300 euros months on Tiktok, just under 100 euros on YouTube.
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Problem: last January, the PS mayor of Montpellier Michaël Delafosse, a particularly shocking video of the influencer said to the prosecution. With the chat of a sports commentator, Yann L. finds “still crazy like the whole French population” “was guilty compared to 1939-45 and what happened to the Jewish community. 40 years later, I have the impression that in fact we were really taken for idiots ”.
Read too When France discovered the Auschwitz campThe problem, according to him, is the gas chambers, which he calls “rooms to g. “:” When you are interested in the subject, we have never found it, “he asserts. “All rooms at G. were on the Russian side, which was released by the Russians, and the Russians never talked about the room at G. “He really finds it all” very very questionable. Except that it was this element that gave a certain legitimacy to Zionism ”. In the same video, Yann L. attacks the Jewish religion “which is very supremacist”, associates the Jews with money and castigates “this story that we have been sold where the Jew is the gentle who was persecuted by the German villain”. The video has been seen 269,000 times.
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But Yann L., who chose to be his own lawyer, assures with not seeing at all where the problem is. Interrupting the magistrates, sometimes turning to take the public to the witness, the influencer speaks at the helm exactly as if he spoke to his thousands of followers. Videos on the Jews, he made “four out of 150”. His speech on gas chambers is only “an analysis”, and he “does not try to stuff the skull of anyone”.
Read too How anti -Semitism is progressing on social networks“But what technical skill do you have for analyzes,” questions her, Sandrine Lalande. “Do you consider that you can take an opinion when you do not have a historian diploma?” »Holder of a BEP, Yann L. proudly claims to be self -taught. “In France, we have the right to express themselves!” He insists. The president reminds him that the law, in France, “strictly supervises freedom of expression”. He ensures that this information has been verified, but on Chatgpt.
“But these are not historical research from the archives. You contribute to the fact that anyone can say anything. ” “No law says that you need a diploma to speak publicly!” », Sets the defendant. “What is criticized for is the diffusion”. “At no time do I say that the gas chambers did not exist,” denies Yann L. “I say that we did not find it as it is”. He concedes it: if he had to redo the video, he “would do it differently”. He “would make sure to be a little clearer”. He has nothing against the Jews. Besides, he worked a few years ago for “a large French group. It was a Jewish family. I had no problem working with them ”.
“The comfortable false nose of anti -Zionism”
For the lawyer Maxime Rosier, representative of the Licra, civil party, the anti -Semitism of Yann L. is “characterized”: it is that of the “protocol of the sages of Zion” [un célèbre faux antisémite] And from “Jewish France” of Drumont: the Jews are everywhere, they parasitize society, they are behind institutions, and they use their power in the service of their community. This is exactly what Yann L. tells us with the false comfortable nose of anti -Zionism ”. He compares his declarations on gas chambers to those of negationists like Robert Faurisson: “It is always the same way of working, with a pseudo-historical and scientific ceremonial”.
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Recalling the recent attack on the synagogue of the Grande-Motte, the lawyer believes that Yann L. “is responsible not for their interpretation, but for his words. It is not possible today to allow such remarks given the context that our country knows. ” The Ministry of the Interior has identified, he recalls, 887 anti-Semitic facts in the first half of 2024, an increase of 192 %. “And anti -Semitic damage would represent 67 % of all anti -religious facts while the French Jewish population is less than 1 %. He claims 1,000 euros in damages.
For the lawyer for the League for Human Rights, Claude Ney Schroell, who claims a symbolic euro, Yann L. “is very intelligent”, and “he knew very well what he published”. The deputy public prosecutor, Marco Scuccimarra, recalls that freedom of expression “is not absolute. The legislator, with the Gayssot law, estimated that it was important to keep the memory of crimes of particular gravity ”. Against the accused’s “foul -back and racist” rhetoric “, he requires six to eight months suspended prison sentence and 2,000 euros fine. Invited to speak, Yann L. embarks on a long pro Domo plea, to claim his innocence once again. “I find it all ubiquitous!” Judgment on June 4.
