About fifty trials of "dropouts" of portraits of Emmanuel Macron have taken place, or will take place, all over France.
In this long series, an environmental activist has just been released on Wednesday by the Lyon Court of Appeal.
Charles de Lacombe is the third release on appeal for similar facts targeting the President of the Republic, after that of an Amiens in January, then that of eight people in Gironde in April.
"The signal sent by the Lyon Court of Appeal is strong and confirms the legitimacy of the criticisms of Emmanuel Macron's policy made by the non-violent activists of the ANV-COP21 movement," said the Alternatiba Rhône association in a press release.
On June 8, Charles de Lacombe appeared before the Lyon Court of Appeal for having taken down and "diverted from his main function" the portrait of the president, three years earlier, at the town hall of Villeurbanne (Rhône).
“Walls as empty as its climate and social policy”
If the prosecutor had requested confirmation of the sentence pronounced at first instance, a suspended fine of 500 euros, Charles de Lacombe was therefore released on Wednesday.
“By taking down the portrait of Emmanuel Macron from the wall of a town hall, I did not divert him from his function, reacted the 28-year-old environmental activist.
Exposing sabotage and lies in the face of the social and climate emergency is legitimate.
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The “Decrochons Macron” campaign launched by the ANV-COP21 movement aims to “requisition everywhere the portraits of the president present in town halls to symbolically leave walls as empty as his climate and social policy”.
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