The matter was taken very seriously. In a particularly tense context between Iran and Israel, the Iranian embassy was targeted on Friday April 19. A man entered the Iranian consulate in the 16th arrondissement of Paris carrying dummy grenades. Tried on Monday in immediate appearance, this man of Iranian origin was sentenced to ten months in prison. Aged 61, the defendant explained that he had not wanted to “threaten anyone”, but had wanted to “take revenge” on the Iranian authorities, “terrorists” in his eyes.
The day before the events, “I was informed that my cousin had been hanged in Iran, and that my sister had been arrested,” said Nicolas K., who lives in the Paris suburbs and regularly participates in demonstrations by Iranian opponents. in Paris. The 61-year-old man, who has lived in France for many years, was also sentenced by the criminal court to an obligation of care, a ban on carrying a weapon and a ban on appearing at the consulate and in the 16th arrondissement of Paris.
The defendant appeared for “death threats” and “premeditated violence”. According to witnesses, whose story was recounted at the hearing by the president of the court, he had “dropped Iranian flags”, and repeated “I want to die, I am exhausted”.
Already convicted for burning tires
The intervention of negotiators from the Rapid Intervention Brigade (BRI) finally allowed the arrest of the sixty-year-old, who himself left the building without his vest. In October, Nicolas K. had already been sentenced by the Paris criminal court for setting fire to tires in front of the gate of the Iranian embassy, in the same place.