At the trial held in Lyon on Thursday, the court has canceled almost all of the proceedings, arguing that the investigation file was failing.
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After eight hours of hearings and an hour of deliberation, the Lyons Criminal Court acquitted, Thursday, November 4, three of the seven ultra-left activists accused of “group assault” for passage tobacco extreme right militants Civitas group, during a demonstration against the health pass, Aug. 28 in Lyon. The other four were sentenced to from fines of 300 euros. The decision was greeted by a round of applause in a room where a hundred anti-fascist sympathizers carefully followed the debate.
The prosecution had asked for sentences of two months suspended sentence to two years imprisonment with one year suspended sentence, but the court has canceled almost all of the procedure, saying it lacked the general instructions file prosecutor from the investigation. The tribunal, chaired by Brigitte Vernay, has canceled the entry of requisitions and operating video surveillance, due to too late requisition and telephony requisitions, saying they violated privacy disproportionately .
The court requisition parquet for recovery and exploitation of CCTV images intervened four days after the beginning of the police investigation. During this time, the police advanced without real control. According to lawyers, they would have even omitted elements showing serious abuse of the splinter group Civitas, perpetrated before the alleged scene of ultra-left activists, disseminated and even claimed on the Twitter network. feverishness sign of the authorities? Faced with a worrying upsurge in clashes between extremist groups, magistrates and investigators made a failed trial record.
Laugh collective
At the hearing, the prosecutor detailed the three minutes lynching scene in the street. The group copiously molested three extreme right militants, one of whom was knocked to the ground, punched and kicked. He did not file a complaint either. “How can we justify such violence, even against those who peddle ideas too foul? You are opposed to racism, anti-Semitism, homophobia? Luckily, the law also” insisted the prosecutor Alain Grellet, trying in good faith to explain that the Crown was working to “safeguard the essential interests of the Republic.” The judge froze when a collective laugh cut about him.
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