A man and a woman were brought before the Dijon prosecutor’s office on Tuesday March 21. They are accused of having burned dolls bearing the image of Emmanuel Macron and several ministers during a demonstration against the pension reform.
They presented themselves at the police station. On Tuesday March 21, a man and a woman were taken into custody and brought before the Dijon prosecutor’s office (Côte-d’Or). They are accused of having set fire to dolls bearing the effigy of Emmanuel Macron, Elisabeth Borne, Olivier Dussopt and Olivier Véran during a demonstration against the pension reform.
As part of a criminal composition procedure, the public prosecutor Olivier Caracotch offered them an alternative to prosecution. “They asked for a period of reflection before accepting or not“, specifies this Tuesday the magistrate to France 3 Bourgogne.
As a reminder, the facts occurred on March 16. A spontaneous demonstration was held at the end of the afternoon on the Place de la République, after the activation of article 49-3 by the Prime Minister to pass the pension reform without a vote.
After the events, the regional prefect, Franck Robine, had announced that he was filing a complaint on behalf of the State and had mentioned “unacceptable excesses” and violence that “outside the republican framework”.
The undeclared gathering also gave rise to numerous damages such as trash fires or the destruction of billboards. The city of Dijon has estimated the damage caused by all the demonstrations for a week at 135,000 euros.
