The 23-year-old activist was arrested Thursday in Saint-Cloud (Hauts-de-Seine) and then imprisoned after being seen last Saturday in Paris at a demonstration against the vaccine pass when he was banned from participating in a rally. During this gathering, AFP journalists had been assaulted.
This ban followed his indictment after the violence committed against SOS Racisme activists during a meeting of far-right presidential candidate Eric Zemmour in Villepinte in December.
They had led to the dissolution, on January 5 in the Council of Ministers, of the Zouaves Paris, a small group of ultra-right followers of violent flash actions like “hooligans”.
Baseball bats and tear gas
The Paris court placed Marc de Cacqueray-Valmenier, the only defendant present during the deliberation, under an electronic bracelet.
The prosecutor had requested 10 months’ imprisonment against him for “degradation”, “violence” and refusal to communicate the unlock code for his phone while in police custody.
The court also sentenced Bastien D. to six months in prison, but released the three other defendants for the acts of violence and degradation.
Marc de Cacqueray-Valmenier had been presented by the prosecution during the hearing in November as the “leader” of this expedition carried out, with baseball bats and tear gas, on June 4, 2020 against the Bar Saint Sauveur, in the district of Ménilmontant in Paris.
