investigation opened for a photo of a Toulouse Merah jersey
On social networks, a photo of a flocked Toulouse jersey with the name of Mohammed Merah has circulated. An investigation for “apology for terrorism” opened.
A survey forapology for terrorismwas opened on Sunday after the publication on social networks of a photo of a Toulouse football club jersey bearing the name of Mohammed Merah, we informed the prosecution.
L'”glorification of terrorism by means of communication to the public online is an offense punishable by seven years’ imprisonment“, said the prosecution to AFP, without providing more details on this investigation “who starts“.
Before the announcement of the opening of this investigation, the Toulouse Football Club (TFC) had on Twitter described this flocking as “abject and shameful“, specifying that he “protests this content, reported it as soon as he became aware of it, and affirms that the said jersey was not processed by the teams of the official Club stores“.
On March 19, 2012, Mohammed Merah shot and killed three Jewish children and a teacher in the Ozar Hatorah secondary school in Toulouse, after shooting down three North African paratroopers in Toulouse and Montauban the previous days. He was killed on March 22, 2012, after a 32-hour siege of his apartment by the Raid.