The facts had taken place on the sidelines of a public meeting of the elected official in February. The parliamentary attaché of ex-RN senator Stéphane Ravier, Antoine Baudino, was sentenced on Monday by the Marseille police court to pay 2,000 euros for violence against an activist of the National Rally.
During this meeting in front of his parliamentary office in Marseille, the senator from Bouches-du-Rhône publicly announced, in front of some 150 activists, his withdrawal from the RN after a conflict with an adviser to Marine Le Pen. Three days later, the elected official had formalized his rallying to Éric Zemmour and Reconquête!, some two months before the presidential election.
Antoine Baudino was found guilty of “willful violence” against RN activist Enzo Alias-Blanes. The elected opposition member of the municipal council of Berre-l’Etang, north of Marseille, was ordered to pay a fine of 1,200 euros and to pay 500 euros for non-pecuniary damage to Enzo Alias-Blanes as well as 300 euros to the title of court costs.
A violent headbutt
According to Enzo Alias-Blanes, Antoine Baudino gave him a violent headbutt, while he was among the crowd waiting for Stéphane Ravier’s statement, to the point of hurting him. The young man had immediately posted on the social network Twitter a photo of his face, blood flowing from his nose.
The one who was then national and departmental delegate of the movement of “Young people with Marine” said he was “satisfied” with this conviction, with AFP.
Then became coordinator of Reconquest! for the Bouches-du-Rhône, Antoine Baudino had disputed this version of the facts, claiming to have only “put a fuss”, this gesture in rugby which designates the fact of pressing his hand on the face of an opponent to push him away.
Prior to the altercation, the defendant and the victim had had heated exchanges on Twitter. “I tweeted about Stéphane Ravier denouncing the fact that he was leaving the National Rally, (…) I tweeted violently several times, but never insulting him, and it did not please his parliamentary assistant”, explained Enzo Alias-Blanes in April.