A medieval combat enthusiast has been given four months in jail after he admitted slapping French President Emmanuel Macron.

Damien Tarel told the court it was an act of impulse, but the prosecutor said it was a "deliberate act of violence".

The court heard that Tarel subscribed to right-wing or far-right politics and was close to the yellow-vest movement.

President Macron said the attack should not be trivialised but had to be kept in proportion.

Asked why he had attacked the president, he replied that while waiting with his friends in the car beforehand he had considered doing something notable. He had earlier considered throwing an egg or cream tart, but insisted he had not considered slapping Mr Macron.

"When I saw his friendly, lying look, which sought me out as a voter, I was filled with disgust," he was reported as saying to the court.

Condemning the president's politics, he added that he felt he was part of the anti-establishment gilets jaunes (yellow-vests) movement, which staged anti-Macron protests during the early years of his presidency. "I acted instinctively," he claimed.

Daveambition:
He's even lucky

Down here in Nigeria na either MURIC or Gumi go decide him fate
While Presidency go finalize everything..

gidgiddy:


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Becker72:
;Buhari will have ordered death penalty

colorsofrainbow:
If na Naija,e for don dey meeting with Abacha dem now

coolfredo:
If na naija na life in prisenment

chatinent:
If it's Nigeria, they'll ban his hands for life. The caption of the news will read, thus:

“A suspected cultist, and probably an escapee from Imo prison slaps the president. Thanks to our armed forces who took a fast turn before he pulled the trigger he was about bringing from his pocket, adjacent an axe he hid. His body has been deposited to the mortuary.”


Man's government has failed.

Sirsuky:
The guy should just thank his star say na France presido he did it with omo if naa 9ja by now he should be in 6fit below the Earth.

Daveambition:
He's even lucky

Down here in Nigeria na either MURIC or Gumi go decide him fate
While Presidency go finalize everything..

chatinent:
If it's Nigeria, they'll ban his hands for life. The caption of the news will read, thus:

“A suspected cultist, and probably an escapee from Imo prison slaps the president. Thanks to our armed forces who took a fast turn before he pulled the trigger he was about bringing from his pocket, adjacent an axe he hid. His body has been deposited to the mortuary.”


Man's government has failed.