This Thursday morning, the Nîmes Court of Appeal delivered a deliberation concerning the case of attempted fire at the Quissac gendarmerie barracks.
It was on the night of June 30 to July 1, 2023, France was on fire over the death in the Paris region of 17-year-old Nahel. Riots immediately broke out everywhere in France, in big cities but also in small towns accustomed to calm.
While that night young people attacked the Alès police station, at the same time the Quissac gendarmerie barracks were the target of mortar fire and incendiary devices. Serious facts “while the soldiers and their families were in the unit’s accommodation”, had specified at the time the public prosecutor of Alès. The organized attack lasted less than two minutes, a time which felt like an eternity for the gendarmes and their families present at the barracks and in the official accommodation.
Three weeks ago, the appeal trial took place before the Nîmes Court of Appeal chaired by Nadine Mouttet. Seven young men suspected of having participated in the criminal acts were arrested. The decision fell this Thursday, October 10 and provides for seven immediate incarcerations.
A young person, considered to be the ringleader, was sentenced to 4 years in prison with an arrest warrant because he was absent this morning. His six accomplices present arrived free at the hearing and all left with the police in the direction of the prison. Five received 2 years, including 6 months suspended, a sentence accompanied by immediate incarceration. The sixth defendant received 3 years, one of which was suspended, but also with a committal warrant.
As a reminder, during the trial before the Alès criminal court a few months ago, they had all escaped detention. They were sentenced to 70 hours of TIG for one and up to three years in prison, two of which were suspended on probation for the most convicted. The other defendants were punished in the capital of the Cévennes with sentences ranging from 6 months suspended to two years, including one year… but subject to change.