Hervé Ossant had come out with a big smile on his face from the Bobigny court, with a cohort of activists. On February 22, the date of the deliberation, the secretary general of the CGT 93 departmental union was released from all his charges. He was accused of slapping a police officer during a demonstration in support of the public service in October 2019. The CEGETIST, on the other hand, felt that he had simply dropped the cap of the police officer.
At the correctional hearing, on February 8, the release of a video had led to the reclassification of the facts of violence as contempt against a person custodian of public authority. The public prosecutor’s office had ruled that there had been “a big fair of grabbing but it could not be said that there had been slapping”.
The court, after deliberating, had finally decided to release the trade unionist. This judgment was therefore considered too lenient by the public prosecutor’s office, which took the decision to appeal.
The CGT accuses the public prosecutor’s office of showing “a relentless repression, the political nature of which is obvious”. She also expressed her wish not to stop there and indicated that she was considering filing a complaint against the police for slanderous denunciation. Indeed, the departmental general secretary believed that the policeman had knowingly lied by accusing him of slapping him.
“This is a victory of the truth against the shameless lie of no one who is the custodian of public authority,” the CGT claimed, at the end of the first hearing.
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