“To assault a magistrate is unacceptable”… The Ministry of Justice “strongly condemned” this Friday attacks on social networks focusing on a Justice of the Peace of the Bobigny court docket after the conviction ofErik Tegnérfounding father of the identification media Frontières and editorialist at CNews. “As each time a Justice of the Peace is personally implicated, and even threatened, the ministry condemns it firmly,” indicated the spokesperson for the Chancellery, Sacha Straub-Kahn.
The president of the Bobigny judicial court docket, Anne Auclair-Rabinovitch, for her half expressed her “indignation”, denouncing the truth that “such outrageous, violent and hateful assaults goal to intimidate members of the judicial authority and critically destabilize the rule of legislation”.
Disclosure of private information
Erik Tegnér was sentenced this Thursday to 6 months in jail and a superb of 10,000 euros for having disclosed personal data (surname, first title, metropolis the place they apply) of attorneys specializing in immigration legislation, in a survey printed in 2025 by Frontières. Introduced as “ideological activists” or “hidden culprits of the migratory chaos” profiting from a “juicy enterprise”, these attorneys have been then focused by hateful feedback on social networks and threats.
When the judgment was pronounced, the president of the chamber Youssef Badr careworn that Erik Tegnér “couldn’t ignore that the publication was prone to causing violent behavior towards lawyers », focused by “virulent rhetoric” and “an accusatory and stigmatizing checklist”.
“Name to mobilize” on social networks
Eric Tegnér instantly denounced his conviction as “complete insanity”, calling on his family members and his 98,000 subscribers on X to “mobilize”, in a video that has been viewed more than two million times. “We’re within the strategy of criminalizing criticism of immigration,” he argued.
Eric Tegnér and his supporters, together with figures from the far-right movementstrongly contested on social networks the impartiality of the choose, attacked specifically as “an overtly anti-RN activist”. The Justice of the Peace was additionally topic to many racist comments and Islamophobes.
