The vegan cheesemaker and animal rights activist, named as Myriam by local media, went before a judge on Thursday to face a charge of condoning terrorism. The case comes two days after a leftwing activist received a one-year suspended sentence after hailing the death of gendarme Arnaud Beltrame in the attack in the town of Trèbes. The vegan activist lives in Saint-Gaudens, a village not far from the Pyrenees mountains and the town of Trèbes. The La Depeche du Midi newspaper published a message from the vegan activist in which she said she had deleted her comment within two hours and thought it was visible only to her friends, not to the public. I think of my friend Rémi Fraisse,” Poussier wrote, referring to an environmental activist killed by a stun grenade fired by police during a 2014 protest over a dam.

Source: The Guardian March 29, 2018 17:30 UTC