References to the Nazi regime, racial hatred, violent actions… The content of emails received by many parliamentarians led to the opening of an investigation at the National Pole for the Fight against Online Hate, said Thursday the Paris prosecutor’s office requested by the AFP. The parliamentarians targeted denounced the receipt of anti-Semitic, racist and homophobic emails
The investigation was opened for public apologies for crimes against humanity, war crimes and entrusted to the brigade for the repression of delinquency against the person of the judicial police, said the prosecution. Offenses of public insults and public provocation to violence, hatred, discrimination against a person or a group of people on the basis of their origin or their membership or non-membership to an ethnic group, a nation, a race, a religion or because of their sex, were also retained.
All affected groups
The President of the National Assembly, Yaël Braun-Pivet, and the President of the Senate, Gérard Larcher, had each taken legal action after the receipt by deputies and senators of these emails. “A large number of deputies have been targeted, all groups are affected,” said the presidency of the Assembly on Wednesday. “This is an operation that was obviously done via software,” we added.
More than 80 parliamentarians from the presidential majority have filed a collective complaint with the digital prosecutor’s office, the Renaissance group had indicated to the Assembly. These deputies received, Monday and Tuesday, on their e-mail addresses from the National Assembly, two e-mails accompanied by “anti-Semitic, racist, homophobic tracts” aimed at “restoring the domination of the white race in Europe”, according to the deputy. of Moselle Ludovic Mendes.
References to the Nazi regime
The leaflets contained a link to a website “encouraging acts of ultimate racist, anti-Semitic and homophobic violence”, with “several explicit references to the Nazi regime and Holocaust denial, as well as a return to National Socialism “, he had detailed.
The President of the Senate, for his part, reported in a letter “anti-Semitic emails and incitement to racial hatred, which included many Nazi symbols” sent to several senators.