Degradation, reaction. A man, filmed on Tuesday attacking an SOS Médecins car during the demonstration against the pension reform, was sentenced on Friday to two years in prison, including one year suspended. His sentence is accompanied by a ban on coming to the capital for two years.
The man, aged about forty, was tried in immediate appearance by the Paris Criminal Court. He will have to carry out his sentence at home under an electronic bracelet. Filed S according to a source familiar with the matter, this man who resides in the provinces was arrested on Tuesday after several degradations and throwing of projectiles against the police.
47 arrests Tuesday in Paris
The continuous news channels had filmed him live breaking up, with other people, an SOS Médecins car in intervention. The images show him dressed in all black grabbing a traffic sign before hitting the windshield of the vehicle, while another breaks the front window.
He is also suspected, according to a police source, of having set fire to barriers and of having twice thrown homemade bombs at the police, injuring a mobile gendarme who filed a complaint. A total of 47 people were arrested in Paris on Tuesday according to the prosecution. 44 were taken into custody, including 41 adults.