At the end of 2018, during the first weekends of mobilization, the Arc de Triomphe had notably been vandalized.
Le Monde with AFP
The State was ordered to pay just over 1.4 million euros to the City of Paris, to compensate it for damage caused during demonstrations of “yellow vests”, announced the town hall of the Capital Friday May 6.
Two convictions were rendered by the Paris administrative court and relate to “the period from November 2018 to December 2019”, explained the town hall in a press release .
violence and degradations in the capital
During this period, Paris had been the scene of the largest demonstrations of the social movement, regularly punctuated by violence, clashes with the police and degradations.
During the first weekends of mobilization, the Arc de Triomphe had notably been vandalized, and “yellow vests” had forced the entrance to the ministry of the ex-government of the government, Benjamin Griveaux. In March 2019, the famous Brasserie du Fouquet’s, on the Champs-Elysées, had been burnt down.
in one of the decisions rendered on Wednesday and consulted by AFP, the court A estimated that “the degradations were well committed during the demonstration ions on the public highway “. “If the presence of black blocks is sometimes mentioned in the minutes, the findings also report degradations committed by demonstrators,” observed the court.
“Such degradations therefore result from a crowd (…), and not from a group organized and constituted the sole purpose of committing crimes,” he continued. Consequently, “the city of Paris is justified in requesting the commitment of state responsibility.”
The mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, praised on Twitter the decision of the administrative court of the capital.
I salute the decision of the Paris Administrative Court, sentenced the State to compensate the city of Paris following… https://t.co/oxpkvcq27a
At the end of April, administrative justice had already condemned the State to pay just over 1.2 million euros to the municipality and the metropolis of Toulouse, in repair of the damage caused by the movement “yellow vests”.