The Paris Court of Appeal on Tuesday partially lifted the judicial control of Antonin Bernanos, a figure of the anti-fascist movement, allowing him to return to Paris, AFP learned from concordant sources on Friday.
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The investigative chamber of the Paris Court of Appeal notably lifted the young man's obligation to set up his residence in a family home in Loire-Atlantique and the ban on leaving part of this department, said a judicial source. He now has the obligation to reside in Paris and to check in every month in a police station in the capital. "
He will be able to return to the Paris region to find his family and his comrades,
" the Paris suburbs anti-fascist action (AFA) wrote on Twitter. "
We are happy that his ostracization is finally over,
" his lawyer, Me Arié Alimi, told AFP. "
When an investigating judge becomes a prefect, the whole of justice is degraded,
" he accuses.
The 26-year-old sociology student was sentenced for the first time to a five-year prison sentence - two of which were suspended - for his participation in the resounding attack on a police car in May 2016, quai de Valmy in Paris . His sentence served, he was accused of having participated in a fight with identity activists on the night of April 15 to 16, 2019, near the Notre-Dame de Paris cathedral then on fire. Indicted and reincarcerated for "
meeting violence
"
in
particular, he denies these accusations. Released at the end of October 2019, he had since been subject to a judicial control which assigned him in particular in Loire-Atlantique.