After denouncing the anti-Semitic sign carried by a teacher during an anti-health pass demonstration in Metz, Gérald Darmanin attacked the website “They’re everywhere” on Tuesday. On this platform: a cartography of personalities of Jewish faith or presented as such. “This anti-Semitic site is deeply scandalous and foul-smelling. I report these facts, likely to receive a criminal qualification, to the prosecutor so that prosecutions are brought against its perpetrators and have it closed as quickly as possible, ”the Minister of the Interior wrote on Twitter.
“The hosts and those in charge of social networks must take their responsibilities”, he tweeted acting in application of thearticle 40 of the code of criminal procedure, which requires any authority having knowledge of a crime or an offense to report it to justice. “We are also looking at how to act” on these platforms, we say in the entourage of the Minister.
This anti-Semitic site is deeply scandalous and foul-smelling. I report these facts, likely to receive a criminal qualification, to the prosecutor so that prosecutions are brought against its perpetrators and have it closed as quickly as possible.https://t.co/pFCKrcslp8
– Gerald DARMANIN (@GDarmanin) August 10, 2021
The site reported many times on Pharos
Shortly after the publication of this tweet, the Paris public prosecutor reacted. “The online hate pole of the Paris prosecutor’s office, seized this (Tuesday) morning by a report from the Pharos platform, is today carrying out an investigation of the head of provocation to hatred, discrimination, violence on grounds of religion and public defamation on the grounds of religion, ”he said. The investigations were entrusted to the Brigade for the repression of personal delinquency (BRDP).
Numerous reports were sent in the morning to Pharos – a platform allowing Internet users to report Internet content which they believe to be illegal – which indicated at midday that this mapping “had been reported on numerous occasions”.
A reference to a collaborationist and anti-Semitic journal
The site targeted by Gérald Darmanin claims to present a “duly verified census of French and international personalities”, according to their membership in the world of politics, the media, culture and the economy. Each of them is associated with a photograph and a short biography.
The site is also associated with several links to accounts on social networks, in particular the Russian VKontakte, the American – ultraconservative and conspiratorial – Gab, the “Russian Google” Yandex, or even on the instant messaging Telegram. The name “They’re everywhere” is a reference to the weekly I’m everywhere, the main collaborationist and anti-Semitic press title in France under the Nazi occupation (1940-1944).