‘Slit your throat’ Blogger who threatened to KILL Marine Le Pen under fire, by Romina McGuinness.

For years, Mehdi Meklat, a 24-year-old human rights activist and former Bondy Blog journalist – who, until last week, was hailed as one of France’s rising media stars – published “sickening” tweets under the pseudonym ‘Marcelin Deschamps’, a “provocative” but “fictional” character who, according to the young writer, “does not reflect his personal beliefs, values and morals”.

On Twitter, Mr Meklat – writing as Marcelin Deschamps – threatened to kill Marine Le Pen.

He wrote: “I am going to slit your throat Muslim-style.”

The journalist is also guilty of apologising for terrorism and anti-Semitism: hiding behind his ‘fictional’ character, he praised Islamic terrorist Mohammed Merah, said that he “really missed Osama bin Laden” and that we should “bring back Hitler”.

He also said that he wanted to “rape” former Charlie Hebdo editor-in-chief, Charb – one of the victims of the January 2015 terrorist attacks – with a “Laguiole knife”.

Charming. Imagine if his fellows were a majority.