Cyberbullying: Eddy de Pretto's molesters sentenced to suspended prison

The interpreter of Party too many he had been the target of a spate of hateful and homophobic messages after a concert held in a Parisian church.

“Today is a firm decision that the French justice has issued for my personal prejudice on the one hand but also against cyberbullying and all forms of discrimination by the SR [réseaux sociaux]. We still have a long way to go, but we’re on the right track.”, the artist said on Twitter on December 12. According to the information of World and of AFP extension, the French singer won the lawsuit filed for cyberbullying. Eleven of the culprits, who had considerably insulted him with a “gigantic fagot”, were sentenced to sentences ranging from 3 to 6 months’ imprisonment, suspended. Six others were acquitted by the criminal court.

Auj is a firm decision made by the judge fr. For my personal bias on the one hand but also against cyber-harassment, and any form of discrimination on RS. We still have a long way to go but we are on the right track 💛

— Eddy de Pretto (@eddydepretto) December 12, 2022

Hatred of extremist Catholics

A concert held in a Parisian church in June 2021 was enough to unleash a wave of online hatred against him. After singing in the church of Saint-Eustache, Eddy de Pretto had denounced the approximately 3,000 violent messages he had received and the consequences they had had on his mental health. “I was very afraid to leave the house, sleep disorders (…) depressive disorders, I could not understand this violence,” the 29-year-old singer later testified. Messages that merited condemnation from his abusers, for example, accused him of having “contaminated” their Catholic faith by performing a song about homosexuality in church. Still others had spewed vile remarks like, “We’ll be there at every appointment to remind you that God’s army doesn’t leave this sort of blasphemy unpunished,” or even ” Down with the Republic that makes us sub-human of this species “.

A victory against homophobia and cyberbullying

Eddy de Pretto has never hidden his homosexuality from the great lady of homophobic killers and in his lyrics he denounces homophobia but also toxic masculinity. As in his title “Kid”, known for this line “you will be manly”, in which he indicates the injunctions to manhood, and of which these stalkers are sad clichés.

“The court recalls that one cannot engage with impunity in the digital lynching of a person whose public commitments, sexual orientation or personality have had the misfortune to offend certain extremists”Mr. Martin Lémery, one of Eddy de Pretto’s lawyers, reacted. Something to remember also that on social media as in life homophobia is a crime.