A burning car on the sidelines of a demonstration of "yellow vests", in Toulouse, in April 2019. - F. Scheiber - Sipa

On April 13, 2019, in the midst of the demonstration of "yellow vests", the police of the security and intervention company spotted a man spreading flammable substances on the roadway and on cars parked in the streets of the Pink City .

Thursday, more than a year after the facts, the author of these degradations was tried by the Toulouse Criminal Court. The judges sentenced him to five years in prison. It must be said that the investigators did not find that a hood in his backpack. This activist had already been spotted by the "yellow vests" cell created by the departmental security. He was suspected of being the author of a Molotov cocktail jet against mobile gendarmes on January 26, during Act 11.

Two of them then caught fire and were injured, having ten days of incapacity. Facts cross-checked by the city's video surveillance network. During the search of his home in the west of the Pink City, the police found all the equipment necessary for the production of flammable products. Pending judgment, the man was therefore imprisoned.

Yesterday he was sentenced for the destruction of property of others, aggravated violence, the manufacture and possession of explosive products or devices and the participation in a group formed in preparation for violence. He returned to prison to serve his sentence.

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