The four attackers of Yohann Gillet, who in the meantime became a member of the National Rally for the first district of Gard, were sentenced to sentences ranging from six months to one year in prison for two of them, who benefit from an adjustment. of the sentence in the form of an electronic bracelet.
The events took place on October 26, 2019, while the municipal and regional councilor was having lunch with friends on the terrace of a restaurant, in front of the square house, in Nîmes. They had been taken aback by a man, who was immediately joined by three others, all in their twenties.
The group treated as “fachos”
They would have cured one of the members of the “facho” group. The four defendants, on the other hand, denied having recognized the one who would become a deputy some time later. The insults were followed by shots, particularly against the elected official that CCTV images of the city show him being beaten to the ground.
Yohann Gillet, who “welcomes the pronouncement of sentences”, explains that he is preparing a bill aimed at “the impossibility of adjusting prison sentences when the sentence derives from physical violence (…) Violent attacks are the daily newspaper of many French people and it is necessary to work for a truly dissuasive justice, ”he explains.
