A teacher, owner of the anti-racist RealMarcel1 X account, will file a complaint after his identity is revealed

A teacher will file a complaint with the Paris prosecutor's office to combat online hatred after the disclosure of his identity behind an account on X engaged with the radical left, his lawyer said on Friday.

This affair is shaking up social networks and political spheres. Aurélien Saintoul, LFI deputy, has already announced on X that he has taken legal action to denounce the “doxxing” campaign (sharing of a person's personal information) around the The teacher's identity, as well as his location, were revealed online by the pro-Israeli account @SwordOfSalomon. Aurélien Saintoul also deplores messages on his networks hostile to the teacher, since deleted and revealed by several media, emanating from accounts such as that of the Horizons deputy and spokesperson for Édouard Philippe Jérémie Patrier-Leitus.

“Massive cyberharassment”

The teacher's lawyer, Me Chirinne Ardakani, reported to AFP “massive cyberharassment in hateful and threatening terms on different platforms”. This advice also lists “explicit calls to murder and to commit physical violence against him and his family” and “hundreds of malicious calls to his personal telephone line”. Without forgetting “calls to boycott its establishment whose management has been challenged on social networks and by a number of insulting messages”. “Leaving a teacher to vindictiveness by making his identity and place of work public is an offense which can find no justification in law or in fact,” Mr. Ardakani still insists.

“The recent history of our country demonstrates that these calls and provocations to hatred, far from being confined to the digital and virtual space, are likely to fuel a move into criminal action, in particular the tragic assassination of a professor,” she continues. A complaint will be filed soon “so that justice can identify the perpetrators and shed light on the origin of this campaign, on its instigators and on its relays in France and abroad,” says Mr. Ardakani. The lawyer also hopes that investigations will focus “on the more global motivations that govern this in an electoral context, interference and massive online disinformation”.