The Clermont-Ferrand Criminal Court sentenced the two Clermont trade unionists to a suspended fine of 400 euros on Thursday. Convicted of having entered the Blaise Pascal high school in January 2020 during the mobilization against the reform of the baccalaureate. In addition, he also decides on a criminal record for the two activists.
During the hearing, which took place on February 1, the public prosecutor had requested the same sentence which had been given to them by penal order, therefore without adversarial debate. Order that the two teachers had contested.
“It is the consequence of the instructions that have been given, I am not surprised“, reacted the lawyer of the trade unionists Jean-Louis Borie.
“Activists, not delinquents”
“We have shown that we are not delinquents but militants“insisted Didier Pagès, one of the two convicted trade unionists.
The two trade unionists could challenge their registration in the criminal record in the coming weeks.