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How is using encrypted communication and "showing their mother" suspicious? All the evidence seems extremely circumstantial and they were locked up for 5 years before a trial? The whole thing smells fishy...
NGL if I was locked up for 5 years without a trial for something this stupid I'd probably turn into a terrorist.
Which is fine by the oppressors. They don't actually want to get rid of terrorism; they want an eternal enemy to fight. They're not trying to protect anyone; they're trying to justify their existence.
"A HA! We knew it!"
"I fucking knew you were a criminal."
I wager they are using this to as a launchpad to attack personal encryption and other data safety practices that the government (and more importantly, their corporate backers) cant access.
To give more context, one person came back for from Rojava to France in 2018.
Rojava is an area in Syria fighting against Daesh, they also experimented a lot around different political structures which interested a lot of militants in Europe.
When he came back the DGSI flagged this person as a potential terrorist and start tracking him and the people he knows, before violently arresting them and keeping them in prison for up to 15 months for some of them.
Then there is the whole investigation for 5 years. They did not found any evidence during this investigation but rather than admitting the fact that they fucked up and that everyone in the group is innocent, they are trying to argue that all the evidence have been hidden by the fact they encrypted everything.
In this case the DGSI used methods that are illegal unless "Justified by elements of fact" (I don't know how to translate this part). So if they are innocent the DGSI will be in trouble for their illegal actions unless they are judged guilty. If their are guilty the dgsi will argue that their actions were justified to stop a terrorist attack.
Figured it was something like this. It sounds like one of those "The police know they fucked up and are now grasping at any straw they can find in an attempt to cover their asses" situations.
"We can't find any evidence. But we definitely know they're guilty! They just covered their tracks so well that there is no evidence of wrongdoing available anywhere. Given the situation at hand and how obvious it is, without evidence, that these guys have committed a crime, we better lock them up."
You made a surprisingly accurate description of the situation.
They drew a dick on Macron.
Which is actually kinda hilarious. Until the dick sent his goons…
Bit redundant, that.
I can only assume that the only reason he got elected was because they confused his name for macaron, and everyone loves cookies, right?
I mean? Macarons are sweet tasty and frequently fun-colored. What’s not to love
According to Wikipedia, they were arrested 3 years ago, not 5. Of the 9 people arrested, 2 were released after 3 days, the other 7 were charged, but only 1 of them was still kept detained after "a few months", and he was released for health reasons in April (though he still is charged).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8_December_2020_incident