The deputy prosecutor had requested a six-month suspended prison sentence and a fine of 3,000 euros. There will ultimately be no prison sentence but a fine of 5,000 euros for Papacito. The far-right influencer was convicted on Friday of homophobic insults and inciting violence against a mayor of a small village in the South-West, who had to be placed under police protection.
Damages
The 38-year-old videographer, real name Ugo Jil-Gimenez, will also have to pay 4,000 euros in damages to Christian Eurgal, the mayor of Montjoi, a village of less than 200 inhabitants in Tarn-et-Garonne, has decided the criminal court.
He will also have to pay 1,000 euros in damages to each of the three associations fighting against homophobia whose constitution as a civil party was accepted by the court.
The breeder facing the British “Lord”
The videographer is being prosecuted for “incitement to hatred”, “public insults on the grounds of sexual orientation” and “provocation without effect to intentional aggravated harm to life” for two videos published on his YouTube channel “Le peasant, the mayor and the Lord” in November 2022, and “Infestation of martens in Montjoi”, in May 2023.
Papacito, whose YouTube channel has since been closed, appeared as a fervent supporter of one of the protagonists, a pig breeder. And he accused the mayor of having allowed himself to be corrupted by the other party to the conflict, a British “Lord”.
“Tarlouze lexical field”
The court, which during the trial on February 28 viewed long extracts from the two incriminating videos, acquitted the videographer for the first, but convicted him for the second. We hear Papacito castigating a municipal decree which he equates to a “faggot’s handout”, using according to him a “tarlouze lexical field”, and explaining that “deviants” must be “executed” – remarks in which the prosecution saw homophobic insults.
At the bar, Papacito defended himself by claiming “excess” and the spirit of a “gadriole”, and had stressed that he was being attacked on the form rather than on the substance, since he was not not prosecuted for defamation for accusing the mayor of corruption.
The decision rendered Friday appears “measured,” commented Friday his lawyer, Me Martial Groslambert, who will consult his client to decide on a possible appeal.