The photo of the man wearing a shirt of terrorist Mohammed Merah dates back to at least June 2022 – Liberation
A survey for “apology of terrorism by means of communication to the public online” was opened by the Toulouse public prosecutor’s office after the broadcast on Twitter of an image showing a man wearing a Toulouse football club jersey, flocked with the name of the terrorist “Mohammed Merah” and the number 7, like the number of people he murdered in 2012 in Toulouse and Montauban. On Twitter, the football club denounced a “abject and shameful flocking” and affirms that this jersey “has not been processed by the teams of the official club shops”.
The Toulouse prosecutor’s office indicates to CheckNews that the investigation which “start” vise “identify the person who shared this photograph” on Twitter as well as the man wearing the shirt. The apology of terrorism by means of communication to the public online is an offense punishable by seven years of imprisonment.
French police have opened an investigation (apology for terrorism) after a sickening photo of Toulouse, France, surfaced on social media. Mohammed Merah was a Franco-Algerian terrorist who killed 7 people in 2012 in the Toulouse/Montauban region. #terrorism #France pic.twitter.com/gfevKq55YJ
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The photograph at the origin of this reaction from the club and the justice system was posted on January 6 by the Twitter account @pharaonNwar, which responded to a discussion thread on which were shared flocking jerseys with dubious humor. There are, for example, jerseys bearing the inscriptions “Stalin 45”, “Bin Laden 11”, “Trisomic 21”. Twitter moderation has “suspended” dissemination of the image “in France due to local legislation”, but the tweet is still available from abroad.
Contacted by Check the news, @pharaonNwar claims that the photograph was awarded by a “Friend in Toulouse”. The image would have been sent to him directly on the Snapchat social network and he took a screenshot of it on June 4, 2022 at 00:45, as we could see. Which indicates that the photo is therefore at least seven months old.
During our exchange, the Internet user also acknowledges having shared false information on Twitter, when he affirms in the comments reacting to the cliché that the man in the jersey was imprisoned in the Lyon-Corbas remand center.