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Leader of disbanded far-right group in France sentenced to 1 year in prison

Marc de Cacqueray-Valmenier banned from attending demonstrations after violence at rally in December

Alaattin Dogru  | 21.01.2022 - Update : 21.01.2022
Leader of disbanded far-right group in France sentenced to 1 year in prison

PARIS 

The leader of a dissolved far-right group in France was sentenced to one year in prison, local media reported on Friday.

Marc de Cacqueray-Valmenier, the leader of now dissolved Zouaves Paris (ZVP), was sentenced to one year in prison over the June 2020 attack with baseball bats and tear gas at a bar in Paris.

He was banned from participating in demonstrations because of violence at a December rally by far-right presidential candidate Eric Zemmour last year and was detained on Thursday for joining an anti-vaccine demonstration on Jan. 15.

The ZVP was dissolved with a Cabinet decision on Jan. 5 over violence at Zemmour's rally.

In November 2020, Cacqueray-Valmenier had announced that he joined Armenian ranks in Nagorno-Karabakh to fight Azerbaijanis.

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