Investigation – Harmonie Comyn has been the target of “abject” messages since she declared that France had “killed” her husband “by its inadequacy, its laxity and its excess of tolerance”
“I say it loud and clear, France killed my husband. […] “France killed my husband through its inadequacy, its laxity and its excess of tolerance,” denounced Harmonie Comyn, during a ceremony in Mandelieu-La Napoule, on August 28.
Since then, the widow of the police officer killed by a repeat offender in Mougins (Alpes-Maritimes) during a road check has been the target of insulting comments on social networks which have triggered the opening of an investigation.
“Abject” messages
“The ongoing proceedings concern various despicable messages on social networks targeting the widow but also the police and their relatives,” said this source without giving further details.
On Monday, the public prosecutor of the Aix-en-Provence Court of Appeal warned, during his opening speech before his court, that the public prosecutor would “ensure that certain odious, unacceptable remarks made on the fringes of this tragedy are punished to the full extent of the identification of their perpetrators.”
“Freedom of expression is not a reason for judicial impunity on social networks” and “cannot be the false nose for the commission of offenses, the propagation of hatred of inst(…) - 20minutes
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