a controversial gathering organized by “Justice for ours”, two lawyers file a complaint against the collective

The leaflets calling for the rally arrived at a market in Valence, two weeks ago, and in Romans-sur-Isère, a neighboring town in the Drôme prefecture. They then gradually flooded social networks. Behind the initiative, which plans a tribute to young Thomas on November 30 in Romans, is the ultra-right collective “Justice for ours”. To date, their gathering project has not been the subject of any filing with the Drôme prefecture. She says to monitor “with vigilance” the initiative, which it has – for the moment – not banned.

For their part, M^es Élise Rey-Jacquot and Bilel Hakkar, the lawyers of several of those accused in the Thomas murder case, filed a complaint this week with the public prosecutor of Valencia for facts likely to be qualified as “public provocation discrimination or racial hatred” and for “discriminatory public insult”.

“Thomas had lived 16 years before losing his life, kidnapped by a gang of scum descended from the Cité de la Monnaie in Romans-sur-Isère”indicates the ultra-right collective on the back of the first series of leaflets distributed in Valencia, which then planned a rally on November 16. That is, two days before the anniversary of the murder of this young player from the Romans-Péage rugby club (RCRP).

Fear of a fever breakout

“Thomas’ death is not a news item. It is the consequence of several decades of irresponsible policies, advocating uncontrolled immigration and making injustice the norm.continue the organizers, who denounce the “unworthy system” of which Thomas would be one of the victims.

The lawyers of the accused fear that with the coming of this gathering, a new outbreak of fever will arise, almost a year to the day after a violent descent of the ultra-right in the sensitive district of the Mint, in Romans. On November 25, at the end of the afternoon, 80 individuals from the identity movement, and coming from different regions of France, marched in the city where the accused came from with cries of «Justice pour Thomas» or from «Islam hors d’Europe».

In the videos, which had made the rounds on social networks, these demonstrators appeared with their faces hooded or hidden under scarves. Some were then equipped with iron bars. After a series of arrests, six of them were sentenced to sentences ranging from six to ten months in prison, before their sentences were reduced on appeal to six months of imprisonment on May 16. At the same time, seven others were tried in immediate appearance on February 6. In this second group, five defendants were subsequently sentenced to five months in prison, and the last two were acquitted.