The elected, excluded from the Republic on the march in 2018, was sentenced Monday to 4,000 euros fine, including 2,000 suspended, and to compensate five associations fighting against homophobia.
Six months suspended prison sentence and 140 hours of community service had been required against him. Agnes Cerighelli, elected opposition from Saint-Germain-en-Laye (Yvelines), was sentenced to a fine of 4,000 euros, including 2,000 suspended, and to compensate five associations fighting against homophobia for two tweets deemed insulting to homosexuals, Monday, February 17 by the Correctional Court of Versailles.
Agnes Cerighelli, on the other hand, was acquitted of the counts of “public provocation to hatred or violence because of sexual orientation”, for a message of March 25, 2019 in which she qualified the “LGBT lobby” of “sect” making use “of lies and propaganda” to advance his cause.
The elected representative, excluded from LREM in September 2018, was sentenced for homophobic insult for two messages of March 28 and 29, 2019. In the first, she talks about “LGBT activists” as of a “infamous and perverse lobby”. In the second, she compares the “rainbow flag”, symbol of LGBT activists, wearing the yellow star imposed by Heydrich on the Jews in 1941. Agnès Cerighelli, candidate for mayor of Saint-Germain-en-Laye for the next municipal elections, is also forced to publish the judgment on his Twitter account within ten days.
Justice also ordered her to delete the tweet of March 28 within three days, that of March 29 having already disappeared. Finally, the elected representative must pay 1,000 euros in damages to each of the five associations deemed admissible by the court.
“Agnes Cerighelli built her political career by spreading hate speech against homosexuals and Muslims on social networks”, responded Etienne Deshoulières, lawyer for the Mousse association. “This decision shows that it is no longer possible to make hatred a viable political strategy”, he rejoiced.
Sunday, the Minister of the Interior Christophe Castaner announced to have seized justice for “provocation with hatred” after the diffusion of new messages of Agnès Cerighelli on his Twitter account.
To get used to this kind of slippage, to remain impassive in the face of such repugnant remarks, is to gain hatred and push back the Republic.
I report these publications to the public prosecutor for provoking hatred, under article 40 of criminal procedure. https://t.co/IaweM8tul3– Christophe Castaner (@CCastaner) February 16, 2020
“To want Paris and Marseille to be run by North Africans of the Muslim faith is to betray France, its identity and its history”, wrote in one of her messages the elected official, excluded from La République en Marche in September 2018.
“To get used to this kind of slippage, to remain impassive in the face of such repugnant remarks, is to gain hatred and push back the Republic”, tweeted Christophe Castaner in response, adding that he reported the remarks to the public prosecutor.
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