She is accused of having called Emmanuel Macron “junk” on Facebook. At the opening of the trial of a “yellow vest” activist, this Tuesday, the Saint-Omer prosecutor will raise the nullity of her summons in court. The reason ? The President of the Republic has not lodged a complaint in person against her.
“After analysis, it appears that because of the nullity of the procedure, the court is not validly seized”, indicated, this Tuesday morning, the prosecutor, Mehdi Benbouzid, in a press release. In this case, the sub-prefect had filed a complaint for “contempt of a person depositary of public authority” and “insult to the President of the Republic”.
“The garbage will talk to you tomorrow at 1 p.m.”
He had reported to the prosecutor a message published on the personal page of the fifty-year-old, published the day before an interview with Emmanuel Macron on the 1 p.m. news from TF1 and France 2 on the pension reform. The activist wrote: “The garbage will speak to you tomorrow at 1 p.m., for people who are nothing, it is always on television that we find garbage. »
“The complaint of the sub-prefect, even if it is formulated in the name of the French State, cannot be considered as a personal complaint of the President of the Republic and in the procedures in connection with the offense of press, it is necessary , in order to be able to pursue the complaint of the person concerned stricto sensu”, announced Mehdi Benbouzid.
The 50-year-old cannot therefore, according to him, not be judged. But the prosecutor does not advance on the position that the court will take, since it is he who will have to “decide the question of the validity of his own referral”. The absence of a complaint from the Head of State can lead to a “nullity of the summons or inadmissibility of the request”, he explains.
“They want to make an example of me,” lamented this woman with the daily The voice of the Northevoking many insults uttered on social networks against Emmanuel Macron.