The prosecution requested three years in prison on Monday, including two suspended sentences against a 32-year-old man accused of hitting police officers during a demonstration against the comprehensive security bill in Paris on November 28.
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The prosecutor denounced an "
attack in order
" on the police force and also requested against the defendant an obligation to compensate the victims and the prohibition to hold a weapon for five years.
"
I let myself be won over by the anger,
" explained the protester, who admitted from the start of his trial the acts of violence against persons holding public authority in a meeting with which he was accused.
On several videos of the demonstration broadcast to the audience, the young man appears clearly, dressed in blue jeans and a jacket.
We first see him kick a police officer to knock him down and then later strike other officials on the Place de la Bastille.
Identified by investigators, he had been arrested in Cachan (Val-de-Marne) in a disused gendarmerie where he lived with close friends of the environmental movement.
In the material seized on the spot, the police found messages sent by the 30-something on the evening of the demonstration, which he then described as "
the happiest day of his life
", as well as an image that the president of the court presented. as an "
aggression guide
" on the police.
Monday, the defendant expressed, moved, his "
shame
" in front of the four police officers to whom he had struck blows.
He explained that he had "a
lot of anger
" in him at the time of the events, which occurred a week after the beating of music producer Michel Zecler by the police.
His lawyer Me Juan Branco pleaded for the leniency of the court by insisting on the indignation aroused by this case, as did the muscular dismantling a few days earlier by the police of a migrant camp on the Place de la République, where the defendant was working as a volunteer for an association.
Me Jérôme Andrei, lawyer for the police, denounced him the "
typical profile of the Black bloc
" embodying "
the hatred of primary anti-cop
".
The young man from Paris was remanded in custody at the end of the hearing.
The court will deliver its decision on February 10.