Rifle in the shoulder, he called in May 2020 for a “national uprising” in video on social networks.
It has almost just created a case law.
The former figure of "yellow vests" Christophe Chalençon was sentenced Thursday to 6 months suspended sentence for "provocation to arm against the authority of the State", announces the prosecutor of Carpentras (Vaucluse), who evokes "an extremely rare case of conviction in France for this offense".
This leader of the protest movement, who had led a list in the European elections, was also sentenced to a five-year ban on civil rights.
According to the prosecutor Pierre Gagnoud, Christophe Chalençon was on the other hand released from the charge of "provocation to an armed crowd".
"They want to silence me"
He immediately appealed, said the magistrate.
"There is hardly any case law on the matter [provocation to arm against the State], especially since the entry into force of the new Penal Code in March 1994", indicates Pierre Gagnoud.
On October 29, just hours after the knife attack on the Basilica of Nice, Christophe Chalençon called for a “national uprising”, and even spoke of an “insurrection” in a video posted on Facebook.
During his trial, according to La Provence, the blacksmith assumed to be a “political opponent”, denouncing a censorship: “They want to silence me”.
Christophe Chalençon was at the heart of a controversy in early 2019 when he met Luigi di Maio, vice-president of the Italian Council and leader of the 5-star Movement in France, which led to the recall by Paris, for a week, of the French Ambassador to Italy.