It is a scene which went around the world and had then exhausted the image of the movement of "yellow vests", in full stammerings.
On December 1, 2018, in Paris, during act 3 of these Saturday demonstrations which will last more than a year, the Arc de Triomphe was the scene of insurrectionary scenes.
VIDEO. Arc de Triomphe: the clashes filmed on the police side with an on-board camera
Two years later, justice closed its investigations.
Seventeen people, including a minor, are sent to justice after the destruction of the monument, the Parisian learned from corroborating sources, confirming AFP information.
Ten people will be judged by the Paris Criminal Court for facts of "penetration or maintenance in a classified building", "aggravated theft and concealment", "aggravated damage" or "participation in a group with a view to committing violence or damage », Specifies a legal source.
She adds that six others are referred to the police court, this time for having entered or briefly occupied the Arc de Triomphe, which is a listed building.
Finally, a minor will be tried by the juvenile court for having also entered the building, but also for damage and theft.
"The yellow vests will triumph"
This December 1, 2018, for the third Saturday of demonstrations, the Place de l'Étoile in Paris found itself early in the morning at the heart of a clash between the police and the "yellow vests".
It was around the Arc de Triomphe - where the inscription “Yellow vests will triumph” was tagged - that the clashes increased in intensity throughout the day.
Other pillars of the building have been covered with countless tags, mostly claiming insults aimed at Emmanuel Macron, the shop has been looted of his souvenirs and some works of art that were in the Parisian monument have been found damaged.
With a very substantial financial loss, approaching one million euros.
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VIDEO. Clashes around the Arc de Triomphe minute by minute
A month after the facts, Le Parisien revealed that 14 people had been indicted in the context of a judicial investigation opened by the Paris prosecutor's office, including two high school students and a far-right activist.
Two of them had been remanded in custody.