He sent up to 70 messages a day to Sandrine Rousseau. A forty-year-old accused of cyberharassing the ecologist deputy was placed under judicial control Friday pending his trial on March 29 in Marseille.
"I regret infinitely, I blame myself a lot," said this man living in Aubagne, blond goat and white T-shirt, during an immediate appearance hearing at the judicial court of Marseille where he asked to postpone his judgment to prepare his defense.
"He used all possible means: Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, mail," "he had a total obsession with me," told AFP the Green MP who was not at the hearing.
Already convicted of harassment
Since May, she has filed two complaints against the man. It was the phone number he had given in one of his messages that would have made it possible to identify him. Unemployed, desocialized and suffering from ecstasys addictions, the defendant still lives with his mother and said he had been "in solitude for fourteen years".
In 2018, he had already been sentenced to community service for threatening and harassing a YouTuber specializing in video games. "I was in love with her and she didn't answer me," he said Friday of the previous case. He will be tried on 29 March and is until then placed under judicial supervision with obligation to provide care and a ban on contacting the victim.
"Sexism and rape culture"
"I get dumpers of messages. Fortunately most of them, I do not see them, because I have plenty of filters not to read them" but "it questions sexism and rape culture," added Sandrine Rousseau.
Alongside other elected representatives of her ecologist group in the National Assembly, the deputy had unveiled on February 20 the threats they were undergoing, especially on social networks. They had posted on Instagram, under the hashtag "Balance your bullying", the worst hateful, racist, and sexist threats they regularly received.
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- Sandrine Rousseau
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