マクロン大統領を「くず」呼ばわり　仏女性、侮辱罪で起訴

【リール（フランス）ＡＦＰ＝時事】エマニュエル・マクロン仏大統領をフェイスブックの投稿で「くず」と呼んだ５０代の女性が、侮辱罪で起訴された。検察が２９日、明らかにした。（写真はフランスで行われる政府の年金制度改革に抗議するデモの様子）
　マクロン氏は２２日、全土で抗議が起きている年金改革問題について民放ＴＦ１テレビに出演して説明した。訴状によると、女性はその前日、「くず（マクロン氏）が（あす）午後１時から話すらしい。このくずを見るのはいつもテレビだ」と書き込んだ。
　北部サントメールの検察によると、女性は２４日、行政機関の告訴を受けて身柄を拘束された。侮辱罪に問われており、６月２０日に裁判が開かれるという。有罪となった場合、１万２０００ユーロ（約１７０万円）の罰金が科される可能性があるが、収監の恐れはない。
　女性は、２０１８～１９年にマクロン政権を揺るがした抗議デモ「ジレ・ジョーヌ（黄色いベスト）」運動の支持者だった。女性は告訴を最初に報じた地方紙「ノールの声」に、「彼らは私を見せしめにしたいのだ」と語った。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】
〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2023/03/30-17:07）

A woman in northern France is to be put on trial on charges of insulting President Emmanuel Macron after describing him as 'filth' in a Facebook post, a prosecutor said on Wednesday.
The woman, risks a fine of 12,000 euros but not prison if convicted at the trial due to be held in June.
She was arrested on Friday and held in custody for questioning after the state's local administrative office filed a complaint over her Facebook post, the prosecutor in the northern town of Saint Omer, Mehdi Benbouzid, told AFP.
The complaint focused on a post on her Facebook page made on March 21, the day before Macron gave a lunchtime interview to TF1 television to defend his controversial pension reforms that have sparked nationwide protests.
This piece of filth is going to address you at 1:00 pm... it's always on television that we see this filth, she wrote.
The woman, in her 50s, had been a supporter of the 2018-2019 Yellow Vest protests that shook Macron during his first mandate.
She stands accused of insulting the president of the republic and will stand trial on June 20 in Saint Omer, the prosecutor said.
They want to make an example of me, the woman told La Voix du Nord regional newspaper which first reported the accusations.
The woman, named by the paper as Valerie, said she was astonished when she answered the knock on the door on Friday morning to find police had come to arrest her.
I asked them if it was a joke, I had never been arrested, she said. I am not public enemy number one.
The months-long protest movement against the pension reform has sent social tensions spiralling in France and Macron and his government refuse to give way.
New clashes between police and protesters erupted Tuesday and unions have announced a new day of strikes and protests on April 6.