Valencia (AFP)
The prosecution requested Thursday in Valence a sentence of 18 months in prison against Damien T., who admitted at the hearing to have, two days earlier, slapped President Emmanuel Macron during a trip to the Drôme.
This slap, "completely inadmissible" 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 on trial immediate.
The prosecutor asked for a warrant of committal against him.
He was worried about a possible risk of recurrence, saying he perceived "a kind of cold determination" in this resident of Saint-Vallier, unknown to justice and member of associations "in connection with martial arts, the Middle. age 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 even if the President of the Republic relativized the gesture, denouncing "isolated facts" committed by " ultraviolent individuals ".
"This decision will be observed, scrutinized" and will even have "an international media response," added Perrin, while journalists were present en masse in court.
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