Pro-Palestinian activist Elias d’Imzalene will be tried on October 23 in Paris for public incitement to hatred, after his call for “lead the intifada” in France launched during a demonstration at the beginning of September, the Paris prosecutor’s office told theAgence France-Presse (AFP) Thursday September 26, 2024.
Placed under judicial supervision pending trial
Founder of the media Islam and infohe was placed in police custody on Tuesday September 24 in the premises of the Brigade for the Repression of Delinquency Against Persons (BRDP). Placed Thursday under judicial supervision by a judge of freedoms and detention, he will be tried before the Paris criminal court for “public provocation to hatred or violence because of origin, ethnicity, nation, race or religion.
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A video reported by Gérald Darmanin
On September 8, during a pro-Palestinian rally at Place de la Nation in Paris, Elias d’Imzalène encouraged the participants to “lead the intifada in Paris, in our suburbs, in our neighborhoods” so that “Jerusalem soon” either “liberated”according to a video posted on social networks. An investigation was opened after a report from the former Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin.
Police prefect Laurent Nuñez had on his side “put on notice” the declarants of the gathering of “explain the comments made during the demonstration”his services had indicated.
