2023-07-14 00:57:00
On Twitter, Internet users falsely claimed that a man had been imprisoned for relaying the identity of the police officer involved in Nahel’s death.
By Quentin Marchal for Le Point The arrest and then the imprisonment of a man who had relayed on Twitter the identity of the policeman who shot Nahel caused a lot of reaction on the social network. (illustration image) © OLIVIER DOULIERY / AFP Published on 07/14/2023 at 00:57
This is false information that has gone viral on social media. A large number of Internet users on Twitter were outraged that a user was imprisoned in Toulouse, awaiting trial, after relaying the identity and address of the police officer involved in Nahel’s death. “Incarcerated for an RT” denounces a user. But his placement in prison cannot really be explained because of this simple retweet.
As reported BFM TV, the defendant, a 24-year-old young man, was already sentenced to six months in prison by the Toulouse Criminal Court last April for burglary. On Twitter, Matthieu Audibert, officer of the gendarmerie and doctoral student in private law and criminal sciences, explains that this is therefore a strict application of article 723-16 of the code of criminal procedure.
Nevertheless, the law clearly stipulates that the disclosure of the identity of a person “for the purpose of exposing him or the members of his family to a direct risk” is punishable, according to article 223-1-1 of the Penal Code, three years’ imprisonment and a fine of 45,000 euros, specifies BFMTV. This sentence can even go up to five years in prison and a fine of 75,000 euros if the person concerned is a “custodian of public authority” as is the case in this case with a police officer.
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