The (provisional) sanction has lapsed. On October 15, 2019 in Paris, the anger of Nicolas B, corporal of the barracks of Corbeil-Essonnes (Essonne), had burst the screen. The official was filmed insulting Emmanuel Macron during a firefighters' demonstration in Paris.
This Monday, the disciplinary council of the administrative court of Versailles recommends a suspension of two firm months with two months suspended. Or the sanction requested by the management of the Departmental Fire and Rescue Service (Sdis) of Essonne. This advisory opinion will be sent to the chairman of the Sdis board of directors, Dominique Echaroux. It is to him that the final decision on the sanction to be applied will fall.
"It is an unjust and disproportionate sanction, denounces Jean-Christophe Cantot, assistant secretary of the CGT Sdis 91, present at the hearing. The revocation was not requested due to media pressure. But a fifteen-day suspension would have been more logical. "
Nicolas B. should continue to live in the barracks of Corbeil-Essonnes, where he has official accommodation. However, this father will not receive his salary for two months. "He now wants to move on and quickly get back into the trucks," says Jean-Christophe Cantot.
In this video, seen almost 2 million times on Twitter, Nicolas B. embarks on a rant where he expresses his misunderstanding after being shot in the thigh with a defense ball thrower. His flight ends with the insult "Macron, go make you e **** r". His video had become the symbol of the protest movement of firefighters, and the pebble in the shoe of the Sdis de l'Essonne.
LBD shooting complaint still pending
With his lawyers, Me Valentine Rebérioux and Me Louise Bouchain, Nicolas B. lodged a complaint for endangering the life of others and willful violence with a weapon on a person holding public authority, per person holding a public authority .
His injury had resulted in an 11-day work stoppage. As such, he was interviewed by the General Inspectorate of the National Police and the investigation is "still ongoing," says his counsel.
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Until now, Nicolas B. was temporarily suspended by his hierarchy. In the administrative judgment signed by the president of Sdis during this suspension, the firefighter is accused of "having committed a serious fault", and that "in the interest of the service, it is necessary that he be temporarily suspended of his functions ”.
In an open letter to the President of the Republic Emmanuel Macron dated Monday, October 21, the firefighters' lawyers called for the mercy of the Head of State: "We know it is from you that orders will come the level of sanction to be applied for the comments he made, ”they wrote in particular.
> More reactions to come.