INFO FRANCEINFO. An investigation into cyberharassment opened after messages targeting Emma Rafowicz, president of the Young Socialists

Candidate for the European elections on the PS-Place publique list, the young woman filed a complaint on March 6 with the Paris prosecutor’s office. She denounces a wave of insults online, some of which are anti-Semitic.

Investigations are ongoing. An investigation into cyberharassment was opened after messages targeting the president of the Young Socialists, Emma Rafowicz, franceinfo learned from the Paris prosecutor’s office on Wednesday March 27. The opening of this investigation by the national center for the fight against online hatred follows the complaint filed on March 6 by Emma Rafowicz. It was entrusted to the National Office for Combating Online Hate and Crimes Against Humanity.

Since the beginning of the month, the president of the Young Socialists, candidate for the European elections on the PS-Place publique list, has denounced a wave of “threats and insults” online against him.

According to her, certain messages are of an anti-Semitic nature and referring to the fact that she is the niece of Olivier Rafowicz, the spokesperson for the Israeli army. “I denounce the massacre in Gaza and the policy of [Benyamin Nétanyahou], I am for an immediate ceasefire and a two-state solution. My uncle made his life choices, I made mine”replied the 28-year-old young woman, in an interview at Release published Friday.

Supported by a large part of the left

The insults of which she claims to be the victim come, according to her, “mainly accounts close to the ‘rebellious'”. “I want to say that I am not afraid, that those who attack me do not deserve to call themselves left-wing, that they are my adversaries,” she declares. “Rebellious France has nothing to do with [ces] anti-Semitic attacks”, retorted the LFI coordinator, Manuel Bompard, also cited by Release.

Party deputies, such as Danielle Simonnet and Raquel Garrido, denounced, on social networks, the attacks to which she is the subject. Emma Rafowicz also received the support of other personalities on the left, such as the head of the PCF list for the European elections Léon Deffontaines, or Olivier Faure, the first secretary of the Socialist Party.