(Radio France) The founder of the NGO Barakacity, which was recently dismantled by the French government, has been found guilty of the online harassment of a columnist with RMC radio.
Idriss Sihamedi was handed a 10-month suspended prison sentence by the court near Paris on Friday and reprimanded with [a] 5,000 euro fine.
Sihamedi, whose real name is Driss Yemmou, admitted that he had published 133 tweets in September citing RMC columnist Zohra Bitan, accusing … her of “pouring hatred against Muslim women.”
On 11 September, BFMTV published a video of a student wearing a hijab giving cooking advice.
The columnist reacted to the video by publicly declaring that the student’s choice to wear a veil represented “an ideology from which stems … innumerable gender inequalities.”
