The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) condemned France on Thursday June 23 for having imposed an excessively heavy prison sentence on Jean-Marc Rouillan, co-founder of the far-left armed group Direct Action, condemned to 18 months in prison, eight of which are closed for apologizing for terrorism.
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Jean-Marc Rouillan spent 25 years in prison for acts of assassination of a terrorist nature.
Released in 2012, he gave an interview to journalists in 2016 in which he said he found
the perpetrators of the attacks in Paris in 2015 "
courageous
" .
'acts of terrorism
', but the severity of the sentence in this case, which was not '
proportionate
'.
