2023-06-10 17:16:07
The Videographer’s Channelfar right Papacito, who attacked an elected official from a small village in Tarn et Garonne, was closed by YouTube France on Friday, in the context of a debate on the safety of elected officials. The influencer, already banned from Twitter in 2021, had broadcast a series of videos on YouTube at the end of May, attacking the mayor of Montjoi Christian Eurgal, placed under police protection following death threats following this broadcast.
“Harassment and cyberbullying are not allowed on YouTube and we have clear rules that prohibit content in which insults or threats are repeatedly or maliciously made against individuals,” YouTube France said in a statement. “After review, we have removed several videos from Papacito’s channel for violating this regulation,” added the platform, recalling that it provides for three successive warnings before closing.
Virilistic discourse and “provocation” to murder
Papacito, whose real name is Ugo Gil Jimenez, had 260,000 subscribers on YouTube and Instagram. He attacked the unlabeled mayor of Montjoi, a small town of 190 inhabitants, in a video on YouTube where he called the 75-year-old elected official a “weasel” who should be chased out of the village. In his video entitled “Infestation of weasels in Montjoi”, viewed more than 478,000 times, the influencer took the side of a village pig farmer, in dispute with his British neighbor over the use of a path.
Death threats were then made by email to the elected official, on the town hall’s telephone message or on social networks in particular. The floor of Montauban opened an investigation. Two individuals in their twenties were also sentenced, in a plea-guilty procedure, to 3 months suspended imprisonment for having stolen the French flag from the pediment of the town hall, said the prosecution, stressing that the two men had said they had seen Papacito’s video.
The influencer was noticed in June 2021 for having simulated the execution of an LFI voter, prompting an immediate reaction of indignation from Jean-Luc Melenchon but the support ofEric Zemmour. The Paris prosecutor’s office had opened an investigation for “provocation” to murder. Papacito, however, has never been convicted and is part of the movement of several YouTubers, denouncing a France which “loses its values”, “is leftish” and “feminized”, propagating on YouTube ideas of the radical right, based on a virile and provocative speech.
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