Three years later, the sanction falls. This Friday, the Paris Criminal Court sentenced to a fine three men found guilty of “degradation or deterioration of the property of others in a meeting during a demonstration on the public highway”.
Among them, Yvan Benedetti and Hervé Lalin (known as Ryssen), two far-right figures, known for their “nationalist and patriotic” positions, already convicted six and 21 times respectively by the courts.
Journalists, “directly responsible”, persists a defendant
On October 6, 2019, during a demonstration opposing the opening of medically assisted procreation (PMA), three men approached journalists from the television show Daily with the deliberate aim, according to Yvan Benedetti, of “sabotage their report of m…, by disrupting” the audio and sound equipment of the teams. Then, one of the three men destroyed the camera of the journalist team.
At the helm, Yvan Benedetti, launched on Friday: “I am indirectly responsible for the situation because the direct responsible are the journalists, if we can qualify them like that, rather trash funds, who have come to provoke as they do. often do. »
The court imposed a sentence of 150 day-fines of 10 euros, or a fine of 1,500 euros, against each of the three men.