“Park closed – reason for closure: high risk of getting stabbed – let’s protect our families from immigration. » Here are the messages which were plastered on the gates of municipal gardens in Albi in June. This “campaign” came two days after the knife attack that left six people injured, including four children, in a park in Annecy. On Tuesday, she took three identity activists – including Clément Cabrolier, the son of Frédéric Cabrolier, RN deputy for Tarn – to the criminal court for “incitement to racial hatred”.
The action was claimed by Patria Albigès, a small local nationalist group, and the investigators traced back to these three young people aged 21, 25 and 26 years old.
At the court, the defendants admitted the facts of June 10, but they assured that their action was “political”, without provoking hatred. “It incited neither hatred, nor fear, nor violence,” underlined Clément Cabrolier, who defines himself as a “whistleblower” in the face of a “phenomenon of wildness”. One of the two other defendants, a 25-year-old craftsman, established “a clear and precise link between immigration and insecurity”.
A citizenship course
“They differentiate very well between a political action and that of June which incites hatred,” said in her requisitions the prosecutor Stéphanie Bazart, in reference to the convening by Patria Albigès of a demonstration in tribute to Thomas, the young man killed in Crépol.
The court also followed the prosecutor’s requisitions by sentencing the defendants to three months’ suspended imprisonment and to a citizenship course “aimed at learning the values of the Republic”. The young ultra-right activists have already announced their decision to appeal.