More than a thousand people have been sentenced in connection with the riots that rocked France after the death in late June of a teenager killed by a police officer, and of these, 600 have been imprisoned so far, said Wednesday the Minister of Justice.
In total, 1,278 judgments were pronounced, with 95% convictions, detailed the Keeper of the Seals, Éric Dupond-Moretti, on RTL radio.
He added that 1,300 people had been referred to the prosecution and that 905 had been the subject of an immediate appearance.
At the end of these hearings, 1,056 people were sentenced to imprisonment, 742 of them to a firm sentence of an average duration of 8.2 months.
So far, 600 people have been imprisoned.
As for the legal proceedings carried out against the parents of minors involved in the violence, “there will be some”, but “it is not a question of punishing the mother who works at night and who raises her child alone, the systematization is never good, it’s case by case,” said Éric Dupond-Moretti.
The death of Nahel, 17, killed at close range during a traffic check in Nanterre, west of Paris, set the country ablaze, causing several consecutive nights of violence, car fires, ransacking of buildings public and looting in many cities in France.
In 2005, after three weeks of urban revolt following the death of two teenagers in the Paris region, pursued by the police, 4,728 people were arrested and the courts handed down more than 400 prison sentences.