Posted April 6, 2016 2:00 pm by Comments

By Dan Zimmerman

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Some people just can’t manage to get past their exes. One Frenchman was so obsessed that he couldn’t keep from sending his former love interest a long string of text messages. The result: “Last week, 22-year-old Azougagh Bilal was found guilty and sentenced to six months in jail, with three months suspended, after a judge ruled that the messages could indeed be interpreted as death threats, according to Le Dauphiné Libéré.” He was also ordered to cough up a 1000 euro fine. What did the court find so objectionable? . . .

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That’s right, he included at least one gun emoji while electronically creeping on the girl. And just in case you were thinking. “Jeez, the stupid cheese-eating surrender monkeys” and dismissing this as a European thing, hold on.

(W)hen the gun emoji is dropped into threatening emails, it’s of course considered a threat.

That’s why police in January 2015 arrested a Brooklyn teenager on charges that included making terrorist threats after he posted …Read the Rest

Source:: Truth About Guns

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