The 17th Chamber of the Paris Judicial Tribunal referred the hearing to October 6.
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The Marine Le Pen trial for its comments against the collective against Islamophobia in France (CCIF), scheduled for Tuesday, March 29, was postponed after the election period, “for a good administration of justice” and in order to ‘Ensure “the serenity of the debates”.
On March 17, 2019, the President of the National CCIF of “collective of Islamist fundamentalists who seeks to prevent any criticism of Islamist fundamentalism by qualifying it of Islamophobe” after the attacks, two days earlier, against Two mosques of Christchurch (New Zealand), during which a far-right terrorist, Tarrant Brenton, had killed 51 people and had hurt 49. The CCIF had denounced “the overall nature of the Islamophobic phenomenon and the extreme urgency to fight it “.
The CCIF has since been dissolved on December 2, 2020 – he had taken the lead by announcing “self-effects” a few days earlier. The Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, argued that “for several years, the CCIF has undertakenly led an action of Islamist propaganda”, a decision confirmed by the Council of State.
A hearing that could be “instrumentalized”
Nevertheless, legal actions remain valid, and Jawad Bachare, the former Executive Director of the Association, mandated by the CCIF’s liquidator, was present on Tuesday at the hearing. The Tribunal had already found in accordance with the Civil Party Constitution of the Identity Generation Association, a movement of extreme right young people, also dissolved since.
M e David Dassa-le Deist, for Marine Le Pen, requested the referral of a hearing that could be “instrumentalized at ten days of the first round” of the presidential election, then That “the official campaign opened yesterday”, ensuring that it was also “extremely serene” in this file. M e Nawel Garcia, the CCIF counsel, who does not sin by optimism, pointed out that if Marine Le Pen was elected, “the trial could be returned in five years, and even if she was re-elected in ten years “, which would be overwhelming” the reasonable time “that the European Court of Human Rights allow for.
The [SUP> E Chamber of the Judicial Tribunal referred the hearing to October 6, and made sure of his lawyer that Marine Le Pen would be present.