Cédric Herrou, proclaimed “Azurian of the Year” by the local gazette following a click contest, will be judged next Thursday by the Nice Criminal Court for his activities supporting immigrants in the Roya Valley.
He benefits from media overexposure, which will turn any decision by the judges, whatever it may be, into a political case, while it is simply a matter of judging a citizen activist.
Unwavering Mr. Authority, Éric Ciotti, took action ahead of time with a scathing text after learning the results of the Nice-Matin contest. With his usual verbal aggression, the representative of the vigorous right simply declared: no, Cédric Herrou is not the Azurian of the Year! Ipse dixit!
And he justified it with a long argumentation that portrays the activist as a figure of organized crime benefiting from this situation.
One can also imagine the reaction of David Nakache and Robert Injey, who made Cédric Herrou a symbol of the fight of the oppressed against tyranny: for them, he is a new Garibaldi on trial, a defender of the rights of people to control their destiny.
Moreover, the communist leader states it unambiguously: “Éric Ciotti or the loss of human values”.
With these tones, the debate risks being heated.
