The 31 year old man was also sentenced to three years’ stadium ban for gesture committed to the halftime of the heated match between Nice and Marseille in late August.
Le Monde with AFP
Nice football supporter was sentenced Wednesday, October 13, by the Nice Criminal Court, to one year suspended sentence and three years of stadium ban for “condoning crime against humanity” and “inciting racial hatred”.
It was filmed performing a Nazi hello, August 22, during the stormy meeting between OGC Nice and Olympique Marseille, finalized the 78 th minute after flooding of land by supporters Nice.
The sentence is below the requirements of the prosecutor who had demanded nine months in prison with house arrest under electronic bracelet and a stadium ban of five years.
Shopping 31, who had already been sentenced to three months suspended sentence for aggravated violence, was filmed at half-time just mimic a yarmulke and make the Nazi hello towards the Marseille fans even before the incidents that led off the meeting. The video had been posted on social networks.
“The World Cup of stupidity”
“This is a punishment that is appropriate, reacted to his lawyer M th Mathurin Lauze. The prison farm that was required was to my mind a sentence too heavy compared to the personality and to the facts. “
To the prosecutor, “the facts are intolerable. Nazism is the extermination of 6 million Jews.” For M th David Rebibou, lawyer of the Representative Council of Jewish Institutions in France (CRIF), “he heard stigmatize the Jewish community by the gesture of the outstretched arm is a glorification of the Nazi regime” .
The fan recognized him “a despicable provocation”, ensuring that he would “not affect a person of the Jewish faith in particular.” “It’s a little World Cup of human stupidity,” also admitted to his attorney.
SOS Racisme, who had complained, got one euro in damages as the Movement against Racism and for Friendship among Peoples, Sportitude, the International League against Racism and Anti-Semitism the CRIF and the professional Football League, who were all brought civil party. What had not OGC Nice.
Nice-Marseille meeting was marked by several incidents. A Nice supporter, author of a kick in the direction of Marseille Dimitri Payet player, was sentenced in late September to one year suspended sentence and five-year stadium ban. Five other Nice fans who invaded the pitch will be judged on 23 February.