Three fishermen opposed to the wind farm convicted of violence

It has been three weeks since the wind farm construction site started but tension is still high in the bay of Saint-Brieuc (Côtes-d’Armor). Friday, three fishermen opposed to the project were sentenced for violence and death threats against gendarmes and security guards of the site, we learned Friday from a judicial source. On May 14 in Erquy, near the off-shore shipyard, the tone was raised during a barbecue improvised by the fishermen. The gendarmes intervened using tear gas.

The seven sailors arrested that day “recognized, according to their respective degree of participation”, facts of “violence on the gendarmes, death threats on the gendarmes and the vigilantes of the site, voluntary degradations and insults”, indicated the prosecutor Bertrand Leclerc.

Conditional sentences of 6 to 8 months

The three sailors most involved were referred to the prosecution on Friday and sentenced to six to eight months in prison, with a probationary suspension of two years. These fishermen will also be “prohibited from appearing near the RTE site {Electricity transmission network]” and the obligation to compensate the victims, according to Bertrand Leclerc.

Three other fishermen were summoned to appear before a delegate of the Prosecutor for a notification of a penal order on June 30, while a seventh was summoned “to be tried in court on prior admission of guilt. the same date ”. “All were released at the end,” added the magistrate from Briochin.