Far-right YouTuber Papacito was sentenced on Friday April 26 in Paris to a fine of 5,000 euros for homophobic insults and inciting violence against a mayor of a small village in the South-West, who had to be placed under protection policewoman. The vice-prosecutor, Cédric Le Grand, had requested a six-month suspended prison sentence and a fine of 3,000 euros.
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The 38-year-old videographer, real name Ugo Jil-Gimenez, will also have to pay 4,000 euros in damages to Christian Eurgal, the mayor of Montjoi, a village of less than 200 inhabitants in Tarn-et-Garonne, decided by the criminal court. He will also have to pay 1,000 euros in damages to each of the three associations fighting against homophobia whose constitution as a civil party was accepted by the court.
The videographer was implicated for two long videos, posted online in November 2022 then in May 2023, in which he took sides in a neighborhood conflict in Montjoi, about an access path to a farm. Papacito, whose YouTube channel has since been closed, appeared as a fervent supporter of one of the protagonists, a pig breeder. And he accused the mayor of allowing himself to be corrupted by the other party to the conflict, a “lord” British.
“The yellow line crossed”
The court, which, during the trial on February 28, viewed long extracts from the two incriminating videos, acquitted the videographer for the first, but convicted him for the second. We hear Papacito castigating a municipal decree which he equates to a “faggot handout”using according to him a “lexical field of tarlouze”and explain that the “deviants” have to be “executed” − comments in which the prosecution saw homophobic insults.
In this file, the videographer has “well and truly crossed the yellow line”And “contributed” has “the relentlessness that had fallen” on the mayor, victim of death threats, hammered the vice-prosecutor.
At the stand, Papacito defended himself by claiming “excess” and a spirit of “gadriole”, and had stressed that he was being attacked on form rather than on substance – since he was not being prosecuted for defamation for having accused the mayor of corruption. The decision rendered Friday appears “measured”commented on Friday his lawyer, Martial Groslambert, who will consult his client to decide on a possible appeal.
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