In 2018, Lucas Sztandarowski took over the management of “Monte ton team”, a small group founded by Papacito and Le Raptor dissident, two star YouTubers of the fascist sphere. On the night of October 8 to 9, this 29-year-old lawyer who also ran a publishing house offering neo-Nazi and accelerationist works for sale was sentenced to 5 years in prison for “apology of terrorism” and “public provocation to terrorism”, the first case of this type judged in Paris.
Lucas Sztandarowski has a copy of My fight in a cupboard, images glorifying the Third Reich on his computer, works by Joseph Goebbels for sale in his publishing house“but I am absolutely not a Nazi”, he exclaimed several times in his cubicle on October 8.
Hands behind his back, black tracksuit zipped up to his neck, thin glasses on his nose, the former leader of the small far-right group Vengeance Patriote certainly admitted, from his first speech, the facts for which he was judged by the Paris Criminal Court: “I recognize the acts of apology and provocation of terrorism. I have marketed books with abject ideology. I have owned weapons. »
But Sztandarowski refuted everything else. No, he didn’t really want to encourage terrorists to kill people. No, he did not advocate racial theories. Everything he did could be explained by the pleasure of being “transgressive”. “Assume what you are, what you do…”ended up getting annoyed by the president of the Paris criminal court.
