The images, posted on Snapchat, had gone viral.

The Nanterre Criminal Court sentenced a 23-year-old man to eight months in prison for having filmed and then broadcast on Snapchat the video of a police officer injured during the terrorist attack in Colombes in 2020. These eight months could be adapted by the sentence enforcement judge.

The prosecution had requested twelve months' imprisonment.

We saw on the video a policeman in blood, on the ground, victim of a motorist having deliberately collided with him and his colleague on April 27, 2020. “I apologize for showing this video.

It's just something that I experienced and that shocked me ”, assured Thursday at the bar Massale T.“ In my head, I was in mode: “it's incredible”.

I thought I was witnessing an accident. ”

"I am not being prosecuted for not assisting a person in danger"

“But normally, what reflex do we have when we see an injured person?” Asked the president of the chamber. “We help him, but there were already a dozen policemen helping him. I am not being prosecuted for non-assistance to a person in danger! ”, Noted Massale T. He was tried in Nanterre for“ dissemination of the recording of images relating to the commission of a willful attack on the integrity of the nobody". An offense punishable by five years' imprisonment and a fine of 75,000 euros.

"I just filmed what was happening, and as soon as I saw that the policeman was in blood on the ground, I cut, it shocked me so much", continued Massale T., noting that on his "eight second" video, there is "only one with the policeman". Raising the tone, the president criticized him for posting the video. "Do you understand, sir, that we are not broadcasting everything?" That there is a question of humanity? ”. "That, Madam, now I understood it", assured her the young man, who did not wish to be represented by a lawyer.

During his requisitions, the prosecution had denounced a "total lack of compassion" in the face of "a police officer in a pool of blood", by a young man "very unfavorably known to justice".

Massale T. will have to pay 4,000 euros in damages to the police officer filmed, who was absent at the hearing.

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