Metropolis of Lyon. Far-right polemicist Jean Messiha soon to be tried in Lyon for a tweet
The far-right polemicist Jean Messiha, former spokesman for Éric Zemmour in the presidential election and former executive of the National Rally, will be tried on June 30 by the Lyon court, for incitement to hatred, violence or discrimination, he announced on Thursday on CNews, confirming information from the jeanmarcmorandini.com website.
The enarque, figure of the health anti-pass and at the head of the Apollon Institute, had published a tweet, after the tragic death of Axelle Dorier, in July 2020, a young woman, dragged over more than 800 meters by a car, in the streets of Fourvière (Lyon 5e ), in which he asked for the names of the suspects.
Sentenced at the end of 2021 for insult
« Darmanine [le ministre de l’Intérieur, NDLR] travels for an accident, certainly horrible on the A7 motorway (Drôme) of a car which was leaving for the bled overloaded (9 people on board!). But Axelle, massacred and dismembered by the scum, she will not be entitled to this honor, ”he wrote at the time.
On CNews, the 50-year-old revealed on Thursday that “we can’t write anything more” and spoke of “political justice”.
He also “accuses” “the mainstream media of always hiding […] the foreign first names*” of the suspects, in reference to the Axelle Dorier case.
Jean Messiha had been sentenced at the end of 2021 to a fine of 1,500 euros for having insulted the prefect of Yvelines, qualifying him in a tweet as a “friend” of the “Islamists”.
Asked, the Lyon prosecutor’s office has not confirmed, for the time being, the summons of Jean Messiha to the Lyon court.
* Contrary to the comments of the polemicist, the names of the defendants in the most serious cases, when they are brought to the attention of the Progress , are given without distinction, at specific stages of the legal proceedings, in application of our editorial charter.