Cassandre Fristot, protester with anti-Semitic sign “but who

This teacher and former member of the National Front had brandished, during a manifestation against the sanitary pass, a sign with the names of several officials, some of which are of Jewish confession. The Metz floor had required three months of suspended prison and three years of ineligibility.

Le Monde with AFP

His brandished pancart in the streets of Metz, August 7, during a manifestation of opponents of the health care, with the names of several officials and intellectuals, including some Jewish confession, accompanied by the inscription “but who? “had aroused a sharp excitement. Pronounced in court for “public provocation to racial hatred”, Cassandre Fristot, extreme right-wing activist and former member of the National Front, was sentenced Wednesday, October 20 to six months in prison by the Correctional Court of Metz.

The parquet parquet had required three months of suspended prison and three years of ineligibility against M me Fristot, which had not moved at the hearing on September 8, and who does not was also not present on Wednesday. It incurred up to one year in prison and € 45,000.

Suspended national education

The diffusion of a photo of the sign, proudly Brandi by Cassandre Fristot capped with a beret during the event, had sparked a tolerated in the political class and organizations to combat racism and the anti-Semitism.

The young woman, a replacement German teacher, was suspended by national education, “provisionally” according to his lawyers.

The lawyers of the thirteen civil parties all insisted that the Brandie Pass on the 7th of August wore “the deep stigma of anti-Semitism” and the “codes of the plotting”, as stressed by M e David-Olivier Kaminski, council lawyer representative of the Jewish institutions of France.

These statements had been challenged by defense lawyers, who had denied any anti-Semitism on the part of their client.

/Media reports.