The teenager who had taken four women hostage in a tobacco bar in May 2019 in Blagnac, near Toulouse, was sentenced Tuesday by the children's court to two years in prison.
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Armed with a pistol loaded with blank bullets, he detained the bar owner and her employees for a few hours, before surrendering to the RAID police.
In preventive detention since the facts, he should be freed in the coming weeks, according to his lawyer Eric Mouton.
The court also sentenced him to a one and a half year suspended prison sentence.
"
The court took into account the attitude of the young man with the hostages,
" said the lawyer, saying that his client had been "
almost polite and attentive, even trusting his victims that they were not risking anything, because his pistol was loaded blank
”.
That day, the 17-year-old young man presented himself as "
the armed vanguard of the yellow vests movement
", according to the Toulouse prosecutor's office.
Before the hostage-taking, he was known to the police for cases of violence against the police and thefts.
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