Didier Magnien, engineer residing in Germany and figure of the neo-Nazi movement of the 1990s, was sentenced, on December 30, 2020, to four months suspended prison sentence and a 1,000 euros fine for threatening sociologist Éric Fassin: “I put you on my list of assholes to behead the day it breaks”, he wrote in a tweet, the day after Samuel Paty’s assassination. In Mediapart, the complainant regretted that the Saint-Brieuc prosecutor’s office had decided to settle this matter quickly, by means of an “appearance on prior admission of guilt”, to the detriment of a public trial which “Would have made it possible to question the political nature of these threats”. Didier Magnien was a cadre of the French and European Nationalist Party, a small neo-Nazi group whose members were prosecuted for bomb attacks targeting immigrants and for the desecration of the Jewish cemetery in Carpentras, in 1990. C. B.
Justice Four months suspended for threatening a sociologist with beheading
