Six people, born between 1985 and 2001, are summoned before the Paris Criminal Court on April 22 and 23, 2024 as part of the investigation opened for aggravated harassment after the broadcast in January 2022 of an M6 program Zone interdite devoted to radical Islam, said the Paris prosecutor's office, Thursday, March 16. These summons follow the placement in police custody of ten people on Wednesday to be questioned on the threats received by Amine Elbahi, who had testified in this report shot partly in Roubaix, had indicated a source close to the investigation.
The six people, including a woman, are summoned for moral harassment aggravated by two circumstances : the use of an online means of communication and total incapacity for work (ITT) for more than eight days, said the prosecution. In this report, which had triggered a lively controversy, Amine Elbahi, an associative activist from Roubaix and a lawyer, had questioned the association "Ambitions and initiatives for success". He accused him of preaching Islam instead of providing support classes in this northern town.
Another investigation was also opened concerning the death threats received by M6 journalist and producer of the show, Ophélie Meunier (Satellifacts, January 30, 2022). This component is handled by the Nanterre public prosecutor's office and the personal crime repression brigade (BRDP) of the Paris judicial police. Last January, two people interviewed for this program filed a complaint, denouncing fraud and incitement on the part of the authors of the subject and the channel (Satellifacts, January 25).