The former number 2 of the National Youth Front (FNJ), Davy Rodriguez, was sentenced Tuesday to one month suspended prison by the District Court of Lille for racist remarks made in March 2018. Pursued for " public insult to an individual because of his membership or non-membership of a race ", he was also sentenced to pay 2,500 euros to the victim.
The victim "simply wanted to be recognized as a victim"
A fine of 1,000 euros and three months of suspended imprisonment had been required by the prosecutor Patrick Mignot, who had denounced the words "unacceptable", of "extreme gravity" and "shameful". "A month of suspended prison sentence is not insignificant in terms of his personality and his profile, my client was not in revenge, he just wanted to be recognized in his victim status," replied Kaltoum Gachi, counsel for the complainant.
Davy Rodriguez had made these remarks to a security officer of a bar located in a festive district of Lille, where he spent an evening with several people. The security officer, of Cameroonian origin, told the court on April 2: Davy Rodriguez "got involved in a discussion I had, he pointed at me and said to the other 'leash to fall, these people have no education. "
Drunk at the time of the facts
Then, according to the supervisor, he allegedly chained several racist insults against him. He filed a complaint on March 12, 2018, two days after the events, for "racist insults". The accused admitted to having "part" of the remarks which were reproached to him. A graduate of Sciences Po Paris and currently a student lawyer, he said he was drunk at the time and had apologized to the victim.
On a video shot during this evening and projected to the audience, we see Davy Rodriguez, visibly agitated, make racist remarks against an unidentified person. Davy Rodriguez, former parliamentary assistant to the deputy of the National Assembly (ex-FN) Sébastien Chenu, no longer has any responsibility within the RN.