This sentence of 18 months suspended prison sentence with five-year ban on weapons charges.
A guardian of the peace was sentenced Tuesday to 18 months in prison, suspended simply by the correctional court of Strasbourg for having bludgeoned one protester yellow jacket in January 2019.
The penalty is subject to a five-year ban on weapon-carrying, and an entry in the criminal record. The prosecution had requested a twelve-month suspended prison sentence.
“A violence that is completely disproportionate”
According to the report of the delegation of Metz of the IGPN that the AFP was able to consult, the keeper of the peace, identified as the author of the coup de baton, “was not threatened directly or personally by a protester or by the victim” at the event which was held in the city centre of Strasbourg, on January 12, 2019 and ended in clashes with the forces of law and order.
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The protester, 62-year-old, who was not armed, took a dozen stitches to the back of the head. The prosecutor, Alexandre Chevrier, has pointed to “a violence that is completely disproportionate” to the part of this policeman 47 years in the police force for 23 years and noted by his superiors.
“He has failed in his duties and his oath of office, it demeans the institution that he is supposed to serve”, has accused the prosecutor, while acknowledging a context of violence that day, and no doubt ‘tired'”. He called for “a social stigma clear”.
he said that He was stressed out
The keeper of the peace in the intervention brigade has explained before the court that they had been stressed. He has admitted to “unlawful action” and admitted to having administered a coup de baton, claiming not to remember the rest. In the light of the cctv footage, the prosecution, for its part, retained the “two batons” and “you see it sketch out two kicks to the ground”.
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The lawyer of the guardian of the peace, Me, Christine Meyer, has put forward “the stress and the extreme stress” during the event which led to “these actions regrettable”. “You have struck by pleasure”, said the lawyer for the protester, mr. Renaud Bettcher, according to which the sentence is to risk the keeper of the peace for the cancellation of the police.
