“I wanted to conquer the digital space”

sFor his first appearance before the criminal justice system, Linda He appears anxious, sometimes aggressive, but certainly not fearful. She wears a sober black dress and a suit jacket. She is a mother of two children and does not search for words to justify her actions. “If I hurt someone, I have to pay. I’m ready for this.” She said before the session gathered in Room No. 2.02 of the Paris Judicial Court, where ten other defendants were present, including her husband. JeromeWe sit together. These ordinary women and men, aged 40 to 63, from the four corners of France have two things in common: their clean criminal records (with one exception) and their involvement in the anti-vaccine group. Vivi.

At the beginning of October 2023, former members of the small conspiracy group appeared on charges of cyber harassment against Horizon MP Isabelle Rauch, Socialist Senator Nicole Bonnefoy, and Michel Salama, Deputy Head of the Department of Intensive Medicine and Resuscitation at the Amiens Hospital. Their tests follow each other and are similar. They are accused of publishing it “In a very short period of time” The presiding judge recounts, at regular intervals, a large number of hateful comments, often identical and always written in capital letters, on the Facebook page of the three victims at the height of the health crisis, between March and September 2021. Some of them were written during the trial: “You are filling your mouths with hypocritical notions worthy of the worst Nazis”; “You are a disgrace to humanity”; “You are complicit in the psychological, social, economic and physical genocide of millions of lives.” ; “The Nazi health craze is in your brain.” ; “Isabelle Rauch, you are the embodiment of active and alleged collaboration with the Nazi health dictatorship.” The words spoken by Nicole Bonnefoy’s attorney, M.D^H Rachid Rahmani does not hesitate to describe “Digital stoning.” they “Used to shock and provoke” The defendants’ lawyers responded, at the time “There was no room for democratic debate.”

I don’t mind people disagreeing with me, that’s part of the democratic debate. But this kind of comment is terrible and excessively violent.

On the second day of the hearing Isabelle Rauchelected in Moselle, recounts her ordeal: “I don’t mind people disagreeing with me, that’s part of the democratic debate. But these kinds of comments are outrageous, overly violent, She testifies as tears stream down her face.