On the stand, the 61-year-old defendant explained on Monday that he had not wanted to “threaten anyone”, but had wanted to “take revenge” on the Iranian authorities, “terrorists” in his eyes.
:quality(50)/2023/07/06/64a68815cd1a7_placeholder-36b69ec8.png)
Published
Reading time: 1 min
:quality(50)/2024/04/22/000-34pt6r9-6626dab748855502807601.jpg)
A man of Iranian origin who entered the Iranian consulate in Paris on Friday with dummy grenades to “revenge” of the government of Tehran was sentenced Monday April 22 to 10 months in prison, suspended. The defendant, aged 61 and residing in France for many years, was also sentenced by the criminal court to an obligation of care, a ban on carrying a weapon and a ban on appearing at the consulate, as well as in the 16th arrondissement. from Paris where the events took place.
On the stand, he explained that he had not wanted “threaten anyone”but had wished “get revenge” Iranian authorities, “terrorists” to his eyes. The defendant, who speaks correct French but suffers from hearing problems, was appearing for “death threats” and “premeditated violence”. For the representative of the prosecution, the facts pursued do not relate to a “act of political resistance”but many“common law offenses”.
A man already known to the courts
Friday afternoon, he entered the consular section of the Iranian embassy, wearing a vest with dummy explosives. The intervention of negotiators from the Rapid Intervention Brigade (BRI) finally allowed the arrest of the sixty-year-old, who himself left the building without his vest.
In October, the defendant had already been sentenced by the Paris criminal court for setting fire to tires in front of the gate of the Iranian embassy, in the same place. For these facts, he received an eight-month suspended prison sentence, and appealed. His new trial, initially scheduled for this Monday before the Court of Appeal, was postponed until June 24.
