When contacted, the Draguignan prosecutor's office in charge of the case had not responded by late afternoon. “The current proceeding concerns various disparaging messages on social media targeting the widow but also the police and their relatives,” this source said without further details.
“Please note, I'm not talking about foreigners, I'm talking about repeat offenders,” she said, the arrested suspect being of Cape Verdean nationality. The 39-year-old man who mowed down Warrant Officer Comyn as he tried to avoid a traffic control in Mougins already had 10 convictions on his criminal record and had been arrested twice for drink and/or drug driving, according to justice. He was charged and placed in pretrial detention.
“Hateful remarks”
On Monday, the prosecutor of the Aix-en-Provence Court of Appeal warned during his back-to-school speech before his court that the prosecutor “will ensure that certain hateful, inadmissible comments made in the context of this tragedy.” , are punished to the fullest extent of the identification of their authors.”
“Freedom of expression is not a reason for judicial impunity on social media” and “cannot be the false nose for committing crimes, for spreading hatred towards institutions and towards those who serve them or their loved ones”, added Franck The snack. without further details.