Overview

• Paris’s criminal court imposed a one-year term with six months to be served in prison and six months suspended.
• Judges issued a detention order for immediate incarceration and attached a two-year probation to the suspended portion.
• The sentence includes a €1,500 fine and a three-year ban on possessing or carrying a weapon.
• Videos shot in Paris in June showed the masked 27-year-old approaching passersby and poking them with an empty syringe.
• One complainant was granted seven days of work incapacity for traumatic shock, and the prosecutor had sought a harsher penalty citing 145 largely unsubstantiated reports from the Fête de la Musique.