CNews columnist will also have to pay 2 000 euros to the prefect for compensation for moral damage.
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The far-right polemicist Jean Messiha was sentenced, Monday, October 18, by the court of Versailles, to a fine of 1,500 euros. He was judged for having insulted the prefect of Yvelines, Jean-Jacques Brot, by qualifying him in a tweet of“friend” from “Islamists”. The CNews columnist, against whom the prosecution had requested a fine of 12,000 euros, will also have to pay 2,000 euros to the prefect for compensation for non-pecuniary damage.
In February 2021, in the midst of a controversy arising from the statements of a professor of philosophy from Trappes, Didier Lemaire, judging that the city was “fallen into the hands of the Islamists”, Jean Messiha had attacked the prefect of Yvelines, who had criticized the teacher’s words.
During the hearing in September, Jean Messiha explained “to assume” his tweet which, in his eyes, was a “somewhat bold and outrageous response” to the prefect but not an insult. He had, however, apologized to the person concerned.