Four far-right sympathizers sentenced in Nantes to sentences of up to eight years in prison for a violent attack will be tried again on appeal, we learned on Thursday March 31 from a judicial source, confirming press information Ocean.
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Joyce Burkart, sentenced Friday to 8 years in prison for violence resulting in permanent disability, appealed the judgment of the Loire-Atlantique Assize Court.
The prosecution announced that it had subsequently appealed for the four defendants.
“
This will make it possible to transmit the whole file to the Assize Court of Appeal and will guarantee the coherence of the debates
”, specified the parquet floor to AFP.
On May 7, 2017, the evening of the presidential election, Erwan David, 18 at the time of the incident, and Steven Dardenne, 16, were returning home by bicycle when they were pushed to the ground and then kicked and beaten with a bottle. glass by sympathizers of the GUD, a former far-right student organization.
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The prosecution's appeal is "
logical
" and "
expected
" according to Me Loïc Cabioch, counsel for François-Mamès Cosseron de Villenoisy, 23, sentenced to six years' imprisonment with a warrant of committal for violence resulting in permanent disability, in a meeting, with a weapon and premeditation.
Antoine Desbas, 23, and Matthieu Gaultier de la Richerie, 24, had received three-year suspended prison sentences for violence committed in a meeting with a weapon and premeditation.
Tried on these two counts, as a recurrence of the second, Joyce Burkart, 32, was sentenced to eight years in prison with a committal order.
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