Far-Right Website Targets Prominent Lawyer Yassine Bouzrou in Death Threat List

After threatening to kill a hundred lawyers on July 3 who the day before in a column published in Marianne expressed their opposition to the National Rally, "a far-right party advocating a racist, anti-Semitic and supremacist ideology", the far-right website "Réseau libre - the network of patriots" published on Monday a new list containing the names and personal addresses of five personalities "to be eliminated", including lawyer Yassine Bouzrou and four left-wing elected officials, namely: Alexis Corbière, Manuel Bompard, Ian Brossat and Rachel Keke.

In this new publication, the far-right website hosted in Russia calls for "regularly attacking" "targets who assume their status as enemies", such as "lawyers, journalists, associations and second-rate politicians". The text specifies that we do not "necessarily need firearms, although it is very easy to obtain them in France" to act, but a "good kitchen knife, or even a crossbow, or even a pickaxe handle".

Targeted by these threats, Me Yassine Bouzrou, known for having defended highly publicized cases such as that of Nahel or Paul Pogba, filed a complaint with the national anti-terrorist public prosecutor’s office of the Paris judicial court for "criminal conspiracy to commit terrorist acts" and "incitement to commit terrorist acts", reports Le Parisien.

"I regularly receive death threats for several years, but this is the first time that there is my personal address," the Parisian lawyer told the media. Senator Ian Brossat also reacted to this publication on X: "A far-right website thought it appropriate to put me on a list of people to be eliminated like several left-wing elected officials and lawyers. I’m not afraid. Neither of them nor of anyone. Shame on those who for months have been trivializing the far right." The left-wing elected official announced that he will "file a complaint during the day".