Five other minors suspected of having participated in the assault will be tried later before the children’s court.
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The facts date back to July 3, 2024. A few days before the second round of the legislative elections, the Renaissance deputy Prisca Thevenot, then candidate for her re-election, her deputy Virginie Lanlo and two activists had been attacked during a poster collage operation, in Meudon-la-Forêt (Hauts-de-Seine). A little more than a year after the facts on Wednesday, July 30, the Nanterre Criminal Court (Hauts-de-Seine) sentenced one of the attackers, a 21-year-old man, to twenty-three months in prison. This sentence is accompanied by eighteen months of probationary stay and several obligations and prohibitions.
Five other people suspected of having participated in the assault, all minors, will be tried later before the children’s court.
The defendant was prosecuted for recurrence violence, aggravated by the meeting and the use of a weapon, as well as for degradation of vehicle. Compared in pre -trial detention, he admitted during the hearing that he had a punch at one of the activists, Madiba Ousmane Guirassy, but denied any other violence. He thus challenged being the author of the scooter who broke the activist’s jaw, also injured in the knee, in the belly and by hand. He also denied having attacked with the Virginie Lanlo scooter, touched by the arm and whose windshield of the car was damaged during the violence.
Very moved, the deputy for Hauts-de-Seine and former government spokesperson entrusted during the hearing “Living in fear” Since the facts. Young people “came to do battle “, “They were waiting for an indication of the person to strike”added Prisca Thevenot.
The defendant’s lawyer, Me Ilyacine Maallaoui, recognized in his argument a “Abyssal idiocy” From his client, while rejecting the slightest political motivation. According to the Interior Ministry, 51 candidates, alternates or activists were attacked between the two rounds of the 2024 legislative elections.
