A Lausanne resident sentenced for calling for the killing of Jews

“There is an event at the Lausanne synagogue. About thirty people. Three cops and a private company. I want to break everything.” It is because of these kinds of messages, posted on the social network provocation au crime and violence, discrimination and incitement to hatred and violation of the law on weapons, weapons accessories and ammunition. The Vaud courts have just sentenced him, with a suspended sentence.

It was from his home in Lausanne that this young thirty-year-old, active in the catering field, posted his anti-Semitic messages between the months of February and October 2023. Hidden behind a pseudonym, “he called for the death of Jews and Israelis and to commit attacks,” we discover in the criminal order that has just been issued by the Public Prosecutor’s Office of the district of Lausanne.

“Same thing as at the Bataclan”

The incriminated messages were mainly posted a few days after the Hamas attack on October 7, 2023, which left nearly 1,200 victims. Here are two: “All inhabitants of Israel (Israeli flag emoticon) over the age of 30 deserve to die” and “Same as at Bataclan, Charlie Hebdo etc.… The same targets please”. Note that on the day of his message evoking an event at the great synagogue of Lausanne, the Jewish Community of Lausanne and the canton of Vaud (CILV) was organizing a solidarity rally with Israel there.

The thirty-year-old had again posted a message on X to the address of pedophiles, demanding the death penalty for them. He accompanied his message with the Israeli flag emoticon, as well as a photo of himself hooded illustrating this other message: “With that, I’m going back.”

We don’t know how the police got to him. When she searched his apartment, a knuckleduster was discovered. The man was finally sentenced to a monetary penalty of 5,400 francs, suspended for two years, and a fine of 540 francs as an immediate sanction. He will also have to pay procedural costs amounting to 1,531 francs.

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Laurent Antonoff has been a journalist in the Vaud section since 1990. After covering the regions of Northern Vaud and the Riviera, he joined the Lausanne editorial team at the turn of the millennium. A novelist in his spare time, he won the Berner Zeitung Local Journalism Prize in 1998.More info

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