The activists, six women and three men, were on trial for actions carried out in 2020-2021 in several western departments.
They were sentenced to fines or suspended prison sentences.
Their trial caused a stir.
Nine animal activists, prosecuted for tags and minor damage, were sentenced Thursday in Le Mans to fines or suspended prison sentences.
“We save lives and we are doomed!
Shame on you !
Justice is the greatest criminal”, shouted the activists after reading the judgment of the criminal court.
Vincent Aubry, 35, founder and spokesperson of the Animal1st collective, prosecuted for 18 facts, was released from several of them and sentenced to 140 hours of community service and two fines of 300 euros.
The tags for which he was prosecuted have been reclassified as tickets.
His former companion Alizée Denis, a 28-year-old children's entertainer, prosecuted for 16 facts, was also partially released and sentenced to 10 months suspended prison sentence and three fines of 250 euros.
Four other defendants were sentenced to suspended sentences of 4 to 10 months in prison and three others to suspended fines of 500 euros to 2,000 euros.
At the end of January, the prosecutor had requested sentences ranging from two months suspended prison sentence to 12 months suspended prison sentence against eight of the defendants and a fine of 1,000 euros for the least involved defendant.
Flight of seven lambs
The activists, six women and three men aged 20 to 42, were being prosecuted for actions carried out in 2020-2021 in several western departments.
These were mainly tags on livestock buildings (“The virus is speciesism”, “livestock feeds pandemics”, etc.) and often minor damage.
A collage of posters ("Save lives, abolish livestock") on a viaduct in Mayenne was also accused of them when this action had not given rise to any complaint.
Defendants were prosecuted for the destruction of hunting towers and the theft of seven lambs from a farm in Eure in April 2021. "It was not a theft, it was a release", had corrected at the hearing Fabien C., 37, library employee.
Before the hearing, the activists denounced the "harmful justice" generated by this "first Demeter trial", named after the cell created at the end of 2019 within the national gendarmerie, to prevent "actions of an ideological nature" targeting farmers .
On January 31, the administrative justice ruled that the prevention of “actions of an ideological nature” carried out by Demeter was illegal.
The government appealed.
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