Damien Tarel was also banned from ever holding public office in France after he slapped Emmanuel Macron’s left cheek as the French leader was greeting a crowd.
A 28-year-old Frenchman who described himself as a right-wing or extreme-right “patriot” has been sentenced to four months in prison for slapping President Emmanuel Macron in the face.
Tarel, who shouted a centuries-old royalist war cry as he hit the President, described himself as a right-wing or extreme-right “patriot” and member of the yellow vest economic protest movement that shook Macron’s presidency in 2018 and 2019.Poised and calm, he firmly defended his action and his views on Macron, without providing details of what policies he wants France to change.
He told investigators that he held right- or ultra-right political convictions without being a member of a party or group, according to the prosecutor’s office. “It’s not such a big deal to get a slap when you go toward a crowd to say hello to some people who were waiting for a long time,” he said in an interview with broadcaster BFM-TV. “We must not make that stupid and violent act more important than it is.”
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