Hiding behind a pseudonym, he was finally identified and tried. An Internet user was sentenced to four months in prison on Thursday in Nantes for having made death threats on social networks several months ago against a Renaissance MP from Loire-Atlantique.
The accused also received “the obligation to follow a citizenship course at his own expense, and to pay 200 euros in damages, in compensation for the damage caused”, indicates the deputy in question Mounir Belhamiti, who announces that he will donate this sum to an association committed to fighting cyber harassment.
According to the newspaper Ocean Press, the Internet user is a 63-year-old man, retired computer scientist, living in the Ancenis region. In addition to these death threats, he had disclosed the address of Nantes Renaissance municipal councilor Valérie Oppelt, with the aim of coming to deposit waste in front of her home.