Screenshot from the video of YouTuber Papacito against which Jean-Luc Mélenchon has filed a complaint. – H. Sergeant / 20Minutes
His video, in which he was seen simulating the execution of a voter of Jean-Luc Mélenchon, caused an uproar. After a report to the public prosecutor, the Paris prosecutor’s office to open an investigation for “public provocation not followed by effect to the commission of attacks on the life or integrity of persons”. The far-right YouTuber, Papacito, is heard this Wednesday afternoon, in free hearing, by the brigade for the repression of delinquency against the person (BRDP), in charge of investigations, has learned 20 minutes from a source close to the case.
From the beginning of his video, Papacito recognized him, his video risked “being a little bit biased. […], with the possibility of being slippery and fascinating. “Posted on Sunday, June 6, his twenty-minute tutorial entitled” Leftism is bulletproof? Was removed from the platform less than 24 hours later. This mock execution of a “voter of Jean-Luc Mélenchon”, produced in collaboration with Code Reinho, another figure of the far right online, had violated the rules of use of the site in terms of hate speech.
“I am polemicist”
Since targeted by an investigation, the far-right YouTuber said he was “irreproachable” during an interview with the site of the weekly Current values. “I’m a polemicist, it’s my job. It’s a provocative video, we shouldn’t hide our face, but it’s a humorous video, ”he said in this long interview. Aged 35, Ugo Gil Jimenez, alias Papacito, has a large audience on social networks and became known through the publication of his comic Fashion FDP, co-written with the controversial cartoonist Marsault.