Some victims did not flinch. The lawyer for an association of relatives of victims of the November 13 attacks announced that he had filed a complaint on Wednesday against Generation Z, a movement in support of Eric Zemmour, for “the use for electoral purposes” of photos of victims on his Twitter account.
The complaint, addressed to the Paris prosecutor on Wednesday afternoon, “denounces the misappropriation for personal, political and electoral purposes” of photos of victims, told Jean Reinhart, counsel for the association 13onze15, confirming information from France info.
The association denounces a political recovery
The Generation Z movement, which brings together young people supporting the polemicist’s candidacy for the 2022 presidential election, posted on its Twitter account on Tuesday a series of black and white photos, with a blue-white-red frame, of victims of ‘terrorist attacks or various facts accompanied by the keyword #NosViesComptent. These include victims of the attacks of November 13, 2015 in Paris, Eric Masson, a police officer shot dead in Avignon in May during a check on a deal point and Théo, an 18-year-old salesman fatally stabbed on July 10 in a telephone shop in Seine et Marne.
“By doing this Generation Z created harm and violates the legal provisions relating to the protection of privacy,” said Jean Reinhart, specifying that the complaint had been filed for “use and misappropriation of images without the consent of the beneficiaries. law “. “We find this way of doing unacceptable, we do not want, in this period close to the trial and election, to be recovered by anyone,” he lambasted.
“It’s profanation”
“The unauthorized use of images of victims of terrorism is no way of paying homage to their memory. It is desecration. Whatever the political color “, estimated the association 13onze15 on Twitter. The dissemination of these pictures sparked many reactions of indignation on Twitter.
“I just want to scream” in the face of “this ignoble pro-Zemmour campaign using the photos of our deceased children”, indignant Georges Salines, father of a young woman killed in Bataclan. Génération Z spokesperson Stanislas Rigault, interviewed by France Info, defended himself against any instrumentalisation. “If honoring the memory of the victims is recovery, nothing can be done about it”, he said, specifying that the objective was to “mobilize on insecurity and pay tribute to the victims of murders and knife attacks ”.
I went on vacation today. Tonight when I arrive at a friend’s house, I watch twitter and I come across this despicable pro-zemmour campaign using the photos of our deceased children. I just want to scream.
– Georges Salines (@GeorgesSalines) July 20, 2021
Twenty people are to be tried for the attacks of November 13 (130 dead and 350 injured), the trial is due to open on September 8 and last about nine months.