Four ultra-right activists sentenced for homophobic attack in Paris

Two of them were sentenced to five and seven months in prison. The victim was punched in the face.

Four ultra-right activists were sentenced, Wednesday June 12, in immediate appearance, for their participation in a homophobic attack, in Paris, on the night of Sunday to Monday, while they “celebrated” the victory of the RN in the European elections.

According to the facts reported by the prosecution, the police intervened during the night from Sunday to Monday, near the Luxembourg Gardens: “The victim, who was returning home, claimed to have been attacked around 1:30 a.m. by homophobic and transphobic comments made by people holding a belt and a stick”, he detailed. Still according to the Paris prosecutor’s office, “a witness and video surveillance confirmed that at least one punch had been given to the victim.”

At the bar, the accused were notably questioned on a message written by one of them shortly after the time of the attack, indicating that his friends had “smoked a gay”.

Two of the accused, aged 23 and 20, were sentenced for “violence” to five and seven months in prison. The criminal court ordered their immediate incarceration, but they will be able to ask to serve their sentence under an electronic bracelet. Two other young men were sentenced to six months in prison for “failure to assist a person in danger”.

According to the prosecution, in police custody, the four young men claimed “paramilitary demands and affiliation with the Union Defense Group [GUD, un syndicat d’étudiants d’extrême droite] and at the National Rally.”

“You don’t know who I am, tomorrow you will see what will happen to you”threatened one of them to the attention of the police. “It was a joke”he apologized on the stand.

One of the young men sentenced for “failure to assist a person in danger” is Gabriel Loustau, 23, a GUD figure and son of Axel Loustau, former activist of this student organization, former RN elected official and formerly close to Marine The pen. On May 22, Gabriel Loustau appeared in Paris for public provocation to commit a crime, threat of death, insults of a discriminatory nature and apology for crime. The judgment will be rendered on June 24.

With two of the four young men sentenced on Wednesday, Gabriel Loustau was also arrested among a group of 39 people, during a gathering on February 10 at the Charonne cemetery in Paris, in tribute to the far-right writer Robert Brasillach , shot at the Liberation for collaboration. The procedure was closed without further action, as no offense was sufficiently serious.

The four activists are banned from contacting each other for three years and banned from contacting the victim for two years, with provisional execution.