Gabriel Sohier-Chaput is facing one count of wilful promotion of hatred in connection with a post from January 2017 on the website Daily Stormer
Closing arguments are underway in the case of a Montreal man charged with fomenting hatred against Jewish people in a blog post on a far-right website.
Gabriel Sohier-Chaput, 35, who went by the online moniker Zeiger, is facing one count of wilful promotion of hatred in connection with a post from January 2017 on the website Daily Stormer. Sohier-Chaput has admitted to writing the blog post, but he has said that Daily Stormer founder Andrew Anglin allegedly added elements to the article before publishing, including some of the cruder references toward Jewish people.
On the stand, Sohier-Chaput argued the blog post was a “joke” intended to upset people who are “politically correct.” Defence lawyer Hélène Poussard told the court today that inciting hatred is not simply about injuring an identifiable group with words, but convincing an objective person reading the text to detest or discriminate against that group.Our Morning Update and Evening Update newsletters are written by Globe editors, giving you a concise summary of the day’s most important headlines.
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