Five defendants and the same sentence : the Orleans Criminal Court made it simple this Thursday afternoon, in Orleans. The five anti-sanitary pass activists, who were tried on May 10, were sentenced to 105 hours of community service to be completed within 18 months, the ban on demonstrating and coming into contact with each other for 2 years, the ban on carrying a weapon for 3 years and deprivation of their civic, civil and family rights.
They were prosecuted for having tried to set fire to wooden pallets, on March 12, place de Gaulle, on the sidelines of a demonstration against the health pass. They then uttered insults against the police came to question them.
We are deprived of our civic rights, it is very hard
During the trial, the prosecutor had requested 8-month suspended prison sentences for two of them. The court was therefore a little more lenient. However, this judgment provoked a strong reaction from those concerned at the end of the deliberations, in particular on deprivation of civic, civil and family rights. “We expected benevolence and proportionality with this judgment and there, we are deprived of our civic rights. It’s very hard” denounces Sarah Bertran, the organizer of the anti-pass demonstrations in Orléans and herself condemned. “One can wonder if this is not a political judgment”, add the one that is currently candidate for the legislative elections on the 1st constituency of Loiret.
“In addition, we are forbidden to see each other when one of the activists is my son-in-law. It’s incomprehensible”. The deprivation of civic, civil and family rights concerns in particular the right to vote, eligibility and election.
Four of the five anti-pass activists, advised by Maître Paul Denizot, have already decided to appeal against this judgment.