The Court will be delivering a Grand Chamber ruling in the case of Sanchez v. France on 15 May 2023.

The case concerns the criminal conviction of the applicant, at the time a local councillor who was standing for election to Parliament, for incitement to hatred or violence against a group of people or an individual on the grounds of their membership of a specific religion, following his failure to take prompt action in deleting comments posted by others on the wall of his Facebook account.

• Press release 
• Webcast of the hearing (29/06/2022)
• Factsheet: Hate speech
• Country profile - France