• France A man slaps French President Emmanuel Macron

A French court in Valence (southeast) on Thursday sentenced the man who slapped President Emmanuel Macron to 18 months in jail, 14 months suspended.

The prosecutor had requested against the defendant Damien Tarel, 28, those 18 months for "violence against a person who holds public authority."

On Thursday in Valence, the prosecution requested an 18-month prison sentence against Damien T., who admitted at the hearing that he slapped President Emmanuel Macron two days earlier during a trip to the Drôme.

This

"completely inadmissible"

slap

is an "act of deliberate violence," said prosecutor Alex Perrin, facing the 28-year-old man, long hair, green T-shirt and glasses on his nose, who was immediately tried.

The prosecutor requested an arrest warrant against him.

He was concerned about a

possible risk of recidivism,

saying that he perceived "a kind of cold determination" in this neighbor of Saint-Vallier, unknown to justice and a member of associations "in relation to martial arts, the Middle Ages and the manga universe" .

This slap inflicted on Emmanuel Macron during a trip to Tain l'Hermitage aroused the indignation of the entire political class, although the President of the Republic put the gesture down by denouncing

"isolated acts"

committed by "ultraviolent individuals".

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