The defendant, also ordered on Wednesday to pay 4,500 euros to the civil parties, had shared a publication on the social network TikTok in which the name and address of the police officer implicated in Nahel’s death appeared.
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A 36-year-old Angevin man was sentenced on Wednesday January 31 by the Angers criminal court to a ten-month suspended prison sentence for having shared a publication giving the contact details of the police officer implicated in the death of Nahel on June 27 last.
The defendant had shared a publication on the social network TikTok a week after the tragedy, in which the name and address of this police officer appeared. Thanks to a report on the Pharos platform, a government site allowing illicit content to be reported online, and technical investigations, the police managed to identify the defendant, arrested in September 2023.
Six months suspended prison sentence required
Placed in police custody, the man admitted the alleged facts and explained that he had acted under pressure “hate and anger”. He assured that he was not the author of the message and had simply reposted it, “without thinking about the consequences”. He was absent at the hearing. For the lawyer of the police officer and his partner, Maître Morgane Cadouret, this disclosure “was a disaster for this family.” The defense lawyer, Maître Jean-Noël Bouillaud, pointed out “immaturity” of his client.
The public prosecutor requested a six-month suspended prison sentence against the thirty-year-old with a clean criminal record. Found guilty of “threatening a crime against a holder of public authority” and “disclosure of information enabling the identification or location of a person holding public authority”, the man was sentenced to ten months suspended prison sentence. He will also have to pay 4,500 euros to the civil parties.
