seven members of the ultra-left sentenced to sentences of up to two and a half in prison

The Paris criminal court rendered its decision on Friday, December 22, in the trial for terrorist conspiracy of seven ultra-left sympathizers. The seven activists were sentenced to up to two and a half years in prison. Six men and a woman aged 33 to 39 were suspected of having instigated violent action against the police in 2020. The National Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor’s Office (Pnat) had requested sentences of two years’ imprisonment against them. suspended to six years.

The heaviest sentence was imposed on Florian D., who fought in 2017 with the Kurds of the People’s Protection Units (YPG) in northeast Syria against the jihadist group Islamic State. However, he will be able to benefit from a reduced sentence for the part of the prison sentence that he still has to serve. His lawyer, Raphaël Kempf, was concerned about the“extension to the political and militant sphere of the notion of terrorism that this judgment signs”.

This decision was delayed on Friday morning after incidents. Twenty minutes after the start of the reading of the judgment, while the president was saying that the offense of terrorist criminal association had been established, people in the courtroom expressed their disapproval.