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The DJ organizer of a clandestine party which had gathered in December more than a hundred people in Montlouis-sur-Loire (Indre-et-Loire), in full state of health emergency, was sentenced Friday to 210 hours of community service (TIG) for “endangering the life of others”.

The courts also confiscated the computer and cell phone of the 23-year-old defendant, who was fined 200 euros.

His accomplice, who was accused by justice for having allowed the supply of the premises, a troglodyte cellar in the suburbs of Tours, she received 140 hours of TIG.

The prosecution had required four months in prison suspended and 210 hours of TIG for the DJ, 140 hours for his accomplice.

Both have a clean criminal record.

"These are not the number 1 public enemies, but that evening, you did not work for (…) public health", declared at the hearing the vice-prosecutor of the Republic of Tours, Delphine Amacher , citing an “irresponsible” attitude and an “unreasonable” risk.

The "endangering the life of others" not characterized for lawyers

In their pleadings, the defense lawyers asked for an acquittal on the count of “endangering the life of others”, invoking the legal definition of this offense (“directly exposing others to an immediate risk of death or injuries likely to lead to mutilation or permanent disability ”), which they claim is not characterized.

For lawyers, contamination by the coronavirus remained a simple potential, the consequences of which were in any case not immediate.

On the night of December 12 to 13, 2020, the DJ had organized an evening in a troglodyte cellar whose scale had escaped him once the invitation was shared on social networks.

The young father invoked in his defense "financial difficulties" and the opportunity to earn some money while deprived of work since the nightclubs closed in March.

The clandestine evening, organized without any particular sanitary measure and in a particularly poorly ventilated place, had been interrupted by a gendarmerie patrol, alerted by the number of cars parked in a supermarket parking lot in the middle of the night.

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