Cassandre Fristot, the protester with the anti-Semitic sign, sentenced to 6 months suspended – The HuffPost

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CONDEMNATION – Cassandre Fristot, teacher and former member of the FN who held up an anti-Semitic sign during a demonstration against the health pass on August 7, was sentenced Wednesday, October 20 to a six-month suspended prison sentence for “provocation to racial hatred” by the criminal court of Metz.

The prosecution had requested three months in prison suspended and three years of ineligibility against Cassandre Fristot, who had not come to the hearing on September 8, and who was also not present Wednesday, October 20.

Spreading a photo of the sign, proudly brandished by Cassandre Fristot wearing a beret during the demonstration in Metz in early August, had sparked an uproar in the political class and organizations fighting against racism and anti-Semitism.

Suspended by National Education

The young woman, a substitute German teacher, was suspended by the National Education, “temporarily” according to her lawyers.

She faced up to a year in prison and a fine of 45,000 euros.

The lawyers of the 13 civil parties had all insisted on the fact that the sign brandished on August 7 bore “the deep scars of anti-Semitism” and the “codes of conspiracy”, as underlined by Me David-Olivier Kaminski, lawyer of the Representative Council of Jewish Institutions in France (Crif).

These claims were disputed by defense lawyers, who denied any anti-Semitism on the part of their client.