He had represented the face of Christian Estrosi in the crosshairs of an assault rifle. He also mentioned the idea of “exploding eight French cities at the same time”. Mohamed Bagher, a 37-year-old Nice resident with a disturbing profile, who had notably targeted the mayor of Nice in hateful posts published on Instagram, where he was followed by more than 50,000 people, was sentenced on Wednesday to two years in prison farm.
The correctional chamber of the Nice judicial court also condemned this man with confused justifications, tinged with eccentric theories, to submit to a socio-judicial follow-up of 3 years, with the obligation of care and to find a job. Failure to comply would result in an additional two years in prison.
The 30-year-old was found guilty of “threat of death or damage to property dangerous to people against an elected official” and of “apology for terrorism”. The prevention of “public apology for a crime or misdemeanor” having finally been reclassified during the hearing. The court, which went beyond the requisitions (eighteen months in prison), on the other hand acquitted him of the charge of “dissemination, by electronic communications network, of processes allowing the manufacture of a device of destruction”.