An acquittal for the “yellow vest” knocked out by a grenade fire during a demonstration in January 2019. Tuesday, Jérôme Rodrigues, who was tried by the Paris judicial court for “public insults”, after having dealt with the police online of "band of Nazis", was released.
According to the court, the incriminated remarks "did not target all the police officers but the methods of some of them", in this case members of the Synergie-officers union.
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Jérôme Rodrigues, the injured activist who became a figure of the yellow vests
It is "patent that the incriminated remarks occurred within the framework of a recurring conflict fed on the social network Twitter between Jérôme Rodrigues (...) and the union of police officers Synergie-officers", estimated the judges.
This union "does not merge with the public administration that is the national police", according to them.
A complaint from Gérald Darmanin
Jérôme Rodrigues had admitted to having published on Twitter, in September 2020, the message "it is clear band of Nazis that you will open the concentration camp available north-east of Paris, the one you are trying to hide from the media".
These words had led to the filing of a complaint on the part of the Minister of the Interior, Gerald Darmanin, who had denounced “despicable” remarks and affirmed his desire to “defend the honor of all the police officers”.
One of the best known of the “yellow vests” movement, Jérôme Rodrigues lost an eye during a demonstration on January 26, 2019, while he was filming the arrival of the procession at Place de la Bastille in Paris.
Two police officers were indicted on January 14, one for "willful violence resulting in mutilation or permanent disability" and the other for "aggravated willful violence" in the context of this case.