An investigation has been opened in France after a vegan activist posted on social media that she had "zero compassion" for a butcher who was killed in a recent terrorist attack in the southwestern part of the country.the person wrote in a message discovered by French authorities on Monday. Police in the region spotted a message overnight on Monday-Tuesday related to the killing of a butcher at the Super U supermarket in Trebes last week during an attack by a gunman claiming allegiance to the Islamic State group, the source said. She is alleged to have said she had “zero compassion” for the victim. I’ve got zero compassion for him, there’s justice in it.”

With France mourning the four victims of the gunman’s rampage, the message sparked outrage online and the author later deleted it, but prosecutors decided to press charges for condoning terrorism, a legal source said. Doing so on the internet carries a maximum seven-year jail term and a fine of up to 100,000 euros ($125,000). A left-wing French activist who had stood for parliament last June, Stephane Poussier, was handed a one-year suspended jail term on Tuesday over comments he posted on Twitter over the same attack last Friday. French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday said a policeman who died after offering himself as a hostage in a jihadist attack last week was "full of French resistance," as he led a national ceremony in Paris in honor of the man. “Whenever a policeman is shot… I think of my friend Remi Fraisse,” Poussier had written on Twitter, referring to an environmental activist killed by a stun grenade fired by police during a 2014 protest over a dam. “And this time it was a colonel, great! Additionally, it means one less Macron voter," he continued.A national ceremony was held for Medves at the Hotel des Invalides in Paris on Wednesday.
French left-wing activist Stephane Poussier receives a one-year suspended term for praising the death of a policeman in a terrorist attack.