de nouvelles plaintes déposées après les actes LGBTphobes en marge de la Marche des fiertés
Because their trial was finally postponed to April 7. “For the respect of the contradictory, the defense having filed conclusions of nullity just before the hearing”, justified the president of the court. The request for dismissal of the civil parties, who filed new complaints at the beginning of the week for “public insults”, “incitement to hatred” and “apology for crimes against humanity”, undoubtedly also weighed. This case has known various vicissitudes that have not failed to recall the lawyers of the civil parties, numerous: the town hall of Bordeaux, the Metropolis, the associations SOS Homophobia, Mousse, the Girofard and the League of Human Rights.
“Nazi salutes”?
The events take place on June 12 (1). In the afternoon, while the crowd marched on the quays, a group of about ten people climbed onto the roof of the Maison Écocitoyenne and unfurled a banner with an anti-LGBT message. According to writings and testimonies, some throw stones and homophobic insults. “Nazi salutes were also made”, pleads Me Thibault Laforcade, lawyer for the civil parties.
The same day, nine people were arrested and placed in police custody for damage and participation in a violent group. All are released the next day. “Investigations, including videos, have not brought these facts to light. Police custody has been lifted, the offenses being insufficiently characterized”, then indicated the prosecution, specifying that “no complaint has been filed for insults due to sexual orientation” and adding that “if this was the case , a new investigation would be opened”.
Complaints are not long in coming. “They target, among other things, the Nazi banner and salutes”, rewinds Me Laforcade. Relaunched, the investigation leads to new police custody, at the end of June, and the dismissal of the five Bordeaux residents. Two of them – a delivery man and a business school student – are placed under judicial control with a ban on demonstrations.
The weeks pass. “The file is sent to us late, says Mr.e Laforcade. And we see that the light has gone out: nothing on the banner, nothing on the Nazi salutes. Hence our new complaint, recent, with civil action. And the consequent dismissal request.
A request to which the public prosecutor opposed. “In the reports, I did not see any trace of Nazi salutes”, maintains the prosecutor Bonithon, who proposes to the court to “separate” the two files. The court did not follow this route. See you, therefore, in the spring.