Seven revolutionaries tried for terrorist criminal association were sentenced this Friday, December 22, by the Paris Criminal Court, to sentences ranging from two years in prison suspended to five years in prison, including thirty months with probationary stay. The defendants, six men and a woman, had appeared on trial from October 3 to 27. The heaviest sentence was imposed on Libre Flot, an anarchist comrade who had fought in 2017 in the People’s Protection Units (YPG) in Rojava against the Islamic State. However, he will be able to benefit from a reduction in his sentence for the part of the prison sentence that remains to be served.
The reading of the judgment was disrupted by protests. Twenty minutes after the start of reading, when the president was saying that the offense of association of terrorist criminals was formed, people expressed their disapproval, causing hearing suspension. The magistrate then ordered the evacuation of the room.