Death of a young man during an arrest: a GIGN gendarme acquitted. “Justice is beautiful!” cried relatives of the victim, Henri Lenfant, a member of the Traveler community.
Alexandre B. was prosecuted for "violence of a person holding public authority having caused death without intention of causing it", facts punishable by 20 years of. prison. The anger turned into a spontaneous demonstration outside the court, with tears, screams, insults, threats. The attorney general had requested two years of imprisonment against him.