A 32-year-old Parisian was sentenced Wednesday to 18 months in prison, 8 of which were suspended, for hitting police officers on November 28, during a demonstration in Paris against the proposed law on global security.
The Paris Criminal Court went below the requisitions of the prosecution which, during the trial on January 25, denounced a "formal attack" and demanded three years in prison, two of which were suspended.
The young man was also ordered to pay a total of 7,000 euros in damages to the victims.
Already in pre-trial detention, he will remain imprisoned until the end of his firm sentence, the court said.
At the wording of the judgment, Me Jérôme Andrei, lawyer for the police, expressed his "disappointment": "We expected heavier sentences, especially in prison in view of the violence of the facts which deserve a more important judicial response ”.
No appeal proceedings
The defendant's lawyer, Me Juan Branco, indicated that his client would not appeal.
“The people who govern us use the police to scare the population, which causes situations like this (during demonstrations),” he lamented.
On several videos of the demonstration filmed on the Place de la Bastille and broadcast to the audience, we first saw the thirty-something kick a police officer to put him to the ground and then later strike others. officials.
Identified by the investigators, the man had been arrested in Cachan (Val-de-Marne) in an abandoned gendarmerie where he lived with close friends of the environmental movement.
The muscular arrest of a producer in everyone's mind
During his trial, the demonstrator had recognized the violence with which he was accused, explaining that he had “let himself be overcome by anger” at the end of the march on November 28, marked by clashes between the police and demonstrators.
All of them remembered the muscular questioning of Michel Zecler, a 41-year-old producer, in his professional premises in the 17th arrondissement of Paris.
It happened on Saturday in Paris.
15 minutes of racist beatings and insults.
The crazy scene of police violence that we reveal is simply amazing and uplifting.
We have to look at it to the end to understand the full extent of the problem.
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- Loopsider (@Loopsidernews) November 26, 2020
At the hearing, the defendant expressed, moved, his "shame" in front of the four police officers to whom he had struck blows.
Me Branco had pleaded for the leniency of the court by insisting on the indignation aroused by the Zecler affair, just like the muscular dismantling of a migrant camp on the Place de la République, where the defendant was as a volunteer of an association .
