During the hearing in November, the prosecution requested four months' suspended prison sentence and a fine of 3,000 euros against Basile Dutertre, and two months' suspended prison sentence and a 1,500 euro fine against Léna Lazare. .
Published on 17/01/2025 21:31
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The Paris criminal court acquitted, on Friday January 17, two members of the Earth Uprising environmental movement. They were on trial for not having appeared before a parliamentary commission of inquiry into the clashes in Sainte-Soline (Deux-Sèvres) in 2023.
-During the hearing in November, the prosecution requested four months' suspended prison sentence and a fine of 3,000 euros against Basile Dutertre, and two months' suspended prison sentence and a 1,500 euro fine against Léna Lazare. . He also asked for the civil rights of Basile Dutertre to be banned for two years, and one year for Léna Lazare.
The only one present at the deliberations on Friday, the environmental activist greeted “very good news”. “Complaints that aim solely to criminalize environmental activists should simply stop”nevertheless estimated Léna Lazare.
In its indictment, the public prosecutor considered that the two defendants had “had knowledge of the summons” which were addressed to them and which they had made “the claimed choice” not to show up. The court found that the summons of Basile Dutertre (a pseudonym) was not regular, and that he had thus been able to “consider that it did not apply to him”. Léna Lazare was notably released in the absence “intentional element”continued the court.
