Six and ten months in prison were required Friday, November 12 in Paris against two ultra-right activists for the attack on a Parisian bar emblematic of the anti-fascist movement, while the release was requested for the other three defendants.
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For Marc D., whom he describes as "
leader
" of this expedition carried out on June 4, 2020 against the bar Saint-Sauveur, in the district of Ménilmontant, the prosecutor asked for 10 months of imprisonment for "
degradation
", "
violence
»And refusal to communicate the unlocking code of his phone while in police custody. Against Bastien D., absent at the hearing at the Paris court, the prosecutor requested six months of imprisonment and the revocation of the suspension of a previous sentence of one month in prison for carrying a prohibited weapon.
Found injured not far from the bar and hospitalized after the fact, "
his presence there is hardly questionable
", he argues, adding that he had sent messages incriminating him and that his DNA was found on a tear gas canister.
"
It is simply shameful that we come to these facts of violence, degradation
" for political disputes, said the prosecutor, stressing that "
we have seen in the past that these facts could lead to real tragedies
" .
A deliberation on January 21
This attack of fifteen people with masked faces, claimed by the extreme right group "
Zouaves Paris
", had occurred almost seven years to the day after the death of the young anti-fascist activist Clément Méric, on June 5, 2013, during a brawl in Paris between extreme left activists and extreme right skinheads.
For the three other defendants, also aged in their twenties, the prosecutor requested an acquittal for the facts of "
violence
" and "
degradation
", acknowledging that the file did not include "
any element to demonstrate
" their presence at the scene.
For one of them, he is also asking for a two-month suspended sentence for refusing to communicate the code of his cell phone.
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At the start of the hearing, the lawyers for the five defendants requested the annulment of the entire procedure, which they said was flawed, a request which will be examined by the court at the same time as the merits of the case.
The decision was put under advisement on January 21.
