From prison closes after a night of riots that had marked the spirits.
Four young men, tried for their involvement in a night of riot in 2019 in Chanteloup-Les-Vignes (Yvelines) where a circus tent had burned, were sentenced to one or two years in prison on Thursday in Versailles.
The prosecution had required five to seven years in prison against the four defendants, aged 20 to 25 years.
Compensate the city
Three of them were sentenced to five years' imprisonment, three of which were suspended for their involvement in the fire at a circus school.
They are also ordered to compensate the city of Chanteloup-les-vignes to the tune of one million euros.
For a fourth, only the acts of violence were retained: he was sentenced by the criminal court to three years' imprisonment, two of which were suspended.
All are banned from going to Chanteloup-Les-Vignes for the next four years.
They will also have to pay damages claimed by the police.
"The greatest firmness"
The public prosecutor, Nathalie Ienny, had called for "the greatest firmness", highlighting the violence against the police.
Events, which according to her, are akin to "an attempt to appropriate the territory by part of the inhabitants" and "an attack on the Republic and order".
"The less the prosecution has evidence, the more the prosecution behaves like a steamroller," had launched for the defense Me Isabelle Felenbok, pleading the release for his client of 25 years, Ylliass.
The DNA of the young man had been found on a can of beer which would have served as a Molotov cocktail, as well as on projectiles, according to the elements of the investigation mentioned at the hearing.
But the lawyer disputed in particular the place of discovery and the method of preservation of the latter, the DNA being able to be volatile, she said.
"We do not condemn on hypotheses"
"We do not convict on hypotheses", had also pleaded Me Bianca Ray, for another defendant of 23 years, Sara, of which she had asked the release, ensuring that "nothing allows to connect it to these riots".
On November 2, 2019, the police had been attacked "by about thirty young people", according to the story Wednesday of one of the police officers at the trial, evoking "a guerrilla scene".
They had been subjected to projectile jets and firework mortars until 11:00 p.m. in the Noé district, in Chanteloup-les-Vignes, about thirty kilometers west of Paris.
On the same evening, an arson attack devastated the circus school belonging to the Compagnie des opposires, an association established for nearly 30 years in this city.
The four defendants had all denied having been involved in the fire in the marquee.
At the time, the affair had provoked strong political reactions.
Three ministers had gone there and the then Prime Minister, Edouard Philippe, had spoken of "criminal acts" caused by a "small band of fools and irresponsible".
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