A student was arrested in Avignon on Tuesday April 5. He relayed Islamic State propaganda on Twitter and posted content advocating terrorism.
On Twitter, a student relayed the jihadist propaganda of the Islamic State group and posted messages advocating terrorism. The 20-year-old young man was arrested on Tuesday April 5 at the university campus in Avignon, in the Vaucluse, where he was staying, reports this Friday The Dauphine Libere .
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He was placed in police custody, then imprisoned and is the subject this Friday, April 8 of an immediate appearance before the criminal court, adds Provence . The young man faces seven years in prison. An investigation was opened and entrusted to the counter-terrorism group of the judicial police of Montpellier (Hérault).
Videos of executions in his mobile phone
A few days earlier, police spotted the “posts” of this teenager who was juggling between different anonymous accounts, some of which had already been closed by Twitter. The user was then reported to the Avignon prosecutor’s office. His phone, seized at the time of the arrest, contained photos and videos of executions committed by Islamist terrorist groups.
Social networks are used today as weapons of fear. In 2019, the attack that made 51 dead in two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, was broadcast live by its author for several minutes on Facebook. The video then circulated on YouTube, Twitter, Instagram or Reddit. More recently, a photo of the beheading of Samuel Pattyteacher from Conflans-Sainte-Honorine (Yvelines) murdered on October 16, 2020, had also been relayed on the internet.
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