The founder of a small far-right group called Vengeance Patriote was sentenced on Tuesday, October 8, to five years in prison for having distributed works banned in France on the Internet and promoting a terrorist act.
Lucas S., 28, appeared before the Paris criminal court for provocation by online communication to an act of terrorism, as well as for public apology for acts of terrorism.
He will have to undergo socio-judicial monitoring for seven years, he will not be able to hold public employment or carry weapons for ten years, and his name will be included in the file of people convicted of terrorism, in accordance with the prosecutor’s requests.
The accused, a former member of Action Française, a monarchist movement, was accused of having marketed, between January 2019 and December 2021, through his website, Dissident Library, the translations of numerous works. “legitimize the passage of terrorist acts in the name of far-right ideologies”.
Works by Anders Breivik and the perpetrator of the Christchurch attacks
Among them were The great replacement of Brenton Tarrant, author of the attacks that left 51 dead in Christchurch, New Zealand, in 2019, Turner’s notebooks by William Luther Pierce, or 2083manifesto of Anders Behring Breivik, responsible for the death of 77 people in 2011 in Oslo.
Lucas S. was also prosecuted for having promoted the sale of these works through “encouraging comments” on their website, but also in discussion forums, mainly in Discord messaging.
The man is known for having created the small far-right group Vengeance Patriote, which presented itself as “a community of brothers in arms” preparing for “the collapse”fan of “sports training” and of “survival”.
According to the information site Streetpress, its members exchanged “racist comments” diary and “some of their regular customers don’t [cachaient] not even his passion for fascism”.
The defendant was also tried for unauthorized possession of category B weapons and ammunition. During the hearing he refuted any affiliation with Nazi ideology, stating. “monarchical” and stock follower “transgressive”. However, he admitted the facts, stating that he had “lack of perspective”.
The defense, for its part, ruled in favor of a “sociojudicial surveillance”ensuring that the court faced “someone transgressive and deviant”not to a “terrorist”.
