the 28 defendants convicted, prison sentences handed down

All the people tried between November and January for the cyberharassment of the influencer agent were found guilty on Tuesday. Magali Berdah’s lawyer speaks of a “historic judgment which must mark a turning point in the fight against cyberharassment”.

On Tuesday March 19, the Paris criminal court sentenced the 28 people tried between November and January for aggravated cyberstalking, death threats or even threats of crime against Magali Berdah, head of the influencer agency Shauna Events. “The severity of the sentences handed down is unprecedented in a case of cyberharassment,” underline his lawyers in a press release.

All of the defendants – 26 men and two women, aged 20 to 49 – received prison sentences, including 14 prison sentences, of up to one year, detailed Rachel-Flore Pardo, one of the lawyers. by Magali Berdah, to franceinfo, evoking “a historic judgment which must mark a turning point in the fight against cyberharassment”. The author of anti-Semitic comments, alluding in particular to Hitler, was sentenced to 18 months in prison, 12 of which were closed.

All of the defendants also received additional sentences of compulsory citizenship training and deprivation of eligibility rights for two years. They are also banned from contacting Magali Berdah for two years, including on social networks. They must finally pay him jointly and severally 54,000 euros in damages.

“They behaved like a pack”

This judgment will allow the authors to understand “that it has real consequences on people’s lives”Magali Bardah told France Inter upon arriving at the Paris court. “They behaved like a pack,” she insisted.

During the three trials involving these 28 defendants, which took place between November 2023 and January 2024, the businesswoman denounced a cyberharassment campaign against her, triggered by Booba on social networks.

The rapper launched a crusade in 2022 against Magali Berdah and against those he calls the “influvoleurs” and that he accuses multiple scams against Internet users. He himself is implicated in this case, but through a separate procedure: indicted since October 2023 for aggravated online moral harassment and placed under judicial supervision, the rapper was therefore not tried during these trials .

In its judgment, the criminal court, however, mentioned Booba’s role on Tuesday, explaining that the facts “stem from the rapper’s publications including the defendants had full knowledge”summarized Magali Berdah’s three lawyers in a press release.