Convicted at first instance for attacking a police officer on the sidelines of the AJA-Rennes Ligue 1 football match, two Rennes supporters are appealing the decision. They received a prison sentence of eight and twelve months, adjustable by the Auxerre criminal court.
Prosecuted for having attacked a police officer on the sidelines of the AJA-Rennes football match (Ligue 1), on Sunday November 3, 2024, two Breton supporters were sentenced, on Wednesday November 6, to eight and twelve months in prison by the criminal court from Auxerre.
The first defendant, an engineer by profession, was sentenced to eight months in prison, subject to change, for having thrown a can of beer at the agent. As for the second, an architect, whose mother was a police officer, he was sentenced to two years in prison, including one year suspended, for having knocked down the police officer, before punching and kicking him to the ground. in the face. Added respectively two and three years of stadium ban.
premium Attack on a police officer in Auxerre: eight and twelve months in prison adjustable for the two Rennes supporters
The prosecution had requested six and ten months in prison
From this conviction at first instance, the two supporters decided to appeal, confirms Hugues de Phily, public prosecutor of Auxerre. As is the practice, the prosecution filed a cross-appeal (editor's note: the defendant's appeal can only confirm or reduce the sentence or acquit. The prosecution's cross-appeal allows the court to possibly increase the sentence).
These two young men were part of the twenty or so Rennes supporters, out of a hundred present, deemed “vehement” by the police. During the trial, they admitted insults and provocations, but denied having incited others to take the act and having participated in it. The representative of the public prosecutor had for her part invited the court “not to dilute their responsibilities in the mass” and had requested six and ten months in prison with continued detention. Me Grigis, the lawyer for the two supporters, had asked the court not to give in “to the exemplary nature that we are asking you to set: these two do not deserve to go to prison”.
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premium What we know about the attack on a police officer by Rennes supporters in Auxerre, on the sidelines of the match
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