Journalist’s father dies following harassment by Franco-Israeli hacker

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

http://www.english.rfi.fr/france/20141002-journalist-s-father-dies-following-harassment-franco-israeli-hacker


A Franco-Israeli hacker has threatened to sue a website over articles linking him to the death of the father of one of its journalists. Grégory Chelli, alias Ulcan, phoned Rue89 reporter Benoît Le Corre to mock him after hearing the news of his father’s death from the heart attack.

On Wednesday Rue89’s founder, Pierre Haski, published an article reporting the death of
Le Corre’s father, who had been in an artifical coma since suffering a heart attack following prank calls from Chelli.

After Rue89 published a report by Le Corre on Chelli’s hacking of pro-Palestinian sites during Israel’s Gaza offensive this year, the hacker, who lives in Israel and runs a website called ViolVocal (VocalRape), called the journalist’s father and told him that his son had died.

Forty-eight hours later police arrived at the father’s home at 4.00am because Chelli had told them that the man had killed his wife and son.