The State was ordered to pay a little more than 1.2 million euros to the municipality and the metropolis of Toulouse "
in compensation for the damage caused
" during demonstrations of "
yellow vests
", the court said on Tuesday April 26. administrative.
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“
This is the first time that a court has compensated public authorities for such damages
,” the press service of the Toulouse court told AFP, specifying that “
individuals and insurers
” have already been compensated on administrative court decision.
“
Some of the damage suffered by the municipality of Toulouse and Toulouse Métropole (…) result directly from offenses committed in the extension of these demonstrations, by demonstrators and not by external groups
”, writes the administrative court in a press release.
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In this context, it “
orders the State to compensate the municipality of Toulouse and Toulouse Métropole in the amount of 559,794 euros and 648,960 euros respectively in compensation for the damage caused
” by these demonstrations, which took place between November 2018 and June 2019. These two years there, Toulouse had been the scene of important and frequent demonstrations of "
yellow vests
", sometimes interspersed with violent incidents, and the Pink City was considered as one of the bastions of this anti-system movement, coming from the popular classes.
