Journalist faces online violence by Neo-Nazis
19 Nov 2019
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Julie Hainaut was faced with harassment and death threats after publishing an article on an encounter she had at a bar in Lyon with someone referring to the history of colonisation as “a nice period.” The Neonazi website Participatory Democracy (Démocratie participative) published an article that directly expressed hate-speech towards the journalist, resulting in a wave of online harassment.
See:
Julie Hainaut, harcelée sur Internet par des néonazis, attend toujours justice (lemonde.fr) (November 19, 2019).