US EditionHate Speech Trial Opens for French Far-Right Pundit - KRQE NEWS 13
- Thirteen defendants linked to the far-right group Les Natifs appeared in a Paris court on June 4, 2025, over a racist banner targeting singer Aya Nakamura.
- The trial follows Les Natifs' March 2024 stunt where they unfurled a banner reading, "No way, Aya, this is Paris, not the Bamako market," criticizing Nakamura’s Olympic performance.
- Les Natifs, founded in 2021 by former Generation Identitaire members, promote the far-right 'Great Replacement' conspiracy theory and aim to shock public opinion through provocative stunts.
- Aya Nakamura, a 30-year-old Franco-Malian singer who performed at the July 2024 Paris Olympics opening ceremony, and anti-discrimination groups filed complaints leading to an investigation by France’s anti-hate crimes unit.
- The case underscores ongoing tensions in France over race and nationality as authorities address public incitement of hatred amid political disputes surrounding Nakamura’s role.
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Thirteen members of the identity group were tried on Wednesday for a racist banner targeting the singer. And on Thursday, two of them also appeared in Bobigny for an action against an exhibition...
Aya Nakamura, the most listened French-speaking artist in the world, was targeted by a racist banner as the Olympics approached. Thirteen far-right activists are now judged.
Target of racist speech after the announcement of his participation in the opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympics, Aya Nakamura saw his name dirty on the networks. On Wednesday, 5 June, the sentences required against the authors were unveiled at the Paris Correctional Court. Verdict expected in September.
Sentences of four months' suspended four-month imprisonment were requested on Wednesday, 4 June, in the trial of thirteen members of the identity group Les Natives, prosecuted for having deployed a banner targeting the French-Male singer Aya Nakamura.
The defendants, close to the identity movement, and tried on Wednesday in Paris, were hostile to the participation of singer Aya Nakamura in the opening ceremony of the Olympics 2024.
13 on trial in France over 'racist' stunt against Olympics singer
Thirteen people went on trial in France on Wednesday over a "racist" insult targeting Franco-Malian singer Aya Nakamura, who faced criticism from the far right and harassment over her performance at the Paris Olympics opening ceremony.
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