A 22-year-old man was sentenced Tuesday in Paris to 105 hours of community service (TIG) for repeated non-compliance with confinement. This crime, created during the state of health emergency, is punished for the first time in the capital. "I hope this TIG will be done in a health service so that you can see the effects of your behavior," said the president of the court.
The young man had been fined four times on March 24, including three times in less than an hour when he went at night to a pharmacy on duty, with a certificate not stamped, according to his defense. Verbalized a fifth time on March 26 with a certificate dated the following day, he was then arrested on Sunday during a sixth check. Placed in police custody, he was tried in immediate court Tuesday.
A 7 in a two-room apartment
During a brief hearing, the man, released from prison last September, explained that he lived with his family of seven people in a two-room apartment in the 20th arrondissement. According to him, he was forced after a week of confinement to get into his car, at the time of the first checks, then to take a hotel room. "This is not the best time to change your domicile," replied the president of the hearing.
"I have a broken hand and a finger, I have to be operated on April 5 and I rushed out" on March 24 "just to find a pain reliever", justified the accused. For his lawyer, "when he says he wanted to get some air, it is a modest way of saying" I am suffocating, we are suffocating "", defended Mr. Safya Akorri, referring to these situations of "drama family "created by containment. She also contested the reports made for the lack of time stamping of the certificates, saying that this was not provided for in the government decree.
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Under the law on "state of health emergency", in force for an initial period of two months, non-compliance with the rules of confinement is punishable by a fine of 135 euros. But from four violations within thirty days, this offense becomes an offense, the penalty of which is increased to 3,750 euros fine and six months in prison maximum. Last week, the Paris prosecutor Rémy Heitz announced he wanted to favor TIG "executed in a hospital environment" rather than heavy fines.
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