The Paris prosecutor's office on Tuesday appealed the judicial decision that paved the way for the forthcoming release of anti-fascist activist Antonin Bernanos, who has been imprisoned since April after a fight, AFP learned from a judicial source.
On 2 August, a judge for liberty and detention (JLD) refused to extend this pre-trial detention beyond 18 August. The magistrate had ordered that the young man be released on that date, under judicial control with electronic bracelet, according to this source.
Suspected of taking part in a brawl near Notre-Dame
It is now up to the Paris Court of Appeal to decide on the issue during a hearing before the investigating chamber, the date of which has not yet been set, according to another judicial source. The prosecutor's appeal does not suspend the effects of the JLD order, which means that Antonin Bernanos could be released before this hearing.
This 24-year-old student, a descendant of the writer Georges Bernanos and figure of the anti-fascist movement, is suspected of having participated on April 15 in a fight between anti-fascist and ultraround activists who had met near the Notre-Dame cathedral. -Dame, then on fire.
Double indictment
On 18 April, Antonin Bernanos was indicted for "non-incapacitating assembly-related violence" and "robbery with violence resulting in disability exceeding 8 days" and then incarcerated. Four other persons were indicted and placed under judicial supervision as part of the criminal investigation opened that day.
Initially incarcerated at the prison of Fresnes, in the Val-de-Marne, Antonin Bernanos has been for more than a month in the prison of Health in Paris. Antonin Bernanos was sentenced in October 2017 to three years in prison for taking part in the attack on a police car in May 2016 in Valmy quai in Paris.