Gabriel Sohier-Chaput, a Montrealer who wrote about 1,000 articles on an American neo-Nazi site, intentionally sought to foment hatred against Jews in a January 2017 publication, the Crown prosecutor pleaded.
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“The defendant is an educated, intelligent, articulate and knowledgeable person,” Mr.e Patrick Lafrenière, Friday at the Montreal courthouse. “He couldn’t not know that if a racist, anti-Semite or someone who loves Nazi ideology read his text, that it would encourage further hatred of Jews. »
Present by videoconference, Sohier-Chaput seemed annoyed. He shook his head, rolled his eyes and raised his eyebrows repeatedly during the all day Crown argument.
Me Hélène Poussard, the defense lawyer, pleaded last March that her client simply wanted to “make people laugh” by writing an article in which one can read in particular that the “ancestral tradition” of insulting Jews in the street should ” certainly” be put back in place.
The trial of Gabriel Sohier-Chaput will continue on August 29.