2023-09-26 00:07:29
The criminal court of Thionville (Moselle) sentenced the manager of a bakery to three months’ suspended imprisonment and a fine of 3,000 euros for contempt and obstructing the exercise of the functions of a control agent. labor inspection.
In her requisitions, the prosecutor had requested against the manager, who had not taken the trouble to come to his trial, three months of suspended imprisonment, but also a citizenship course, 1,000 euros in compensation. fine and displaying the decision on the front of his business.
The events took place on March 13, 2020, in Volstroff, a town located between Thionville and Metz. “While the labor inspector and his colleague noted several infractions in this bakery, such as undeclared personnel or the improper use of cameras, the manager began to insult one of the two inspectors,” explained Me Marlène Schott , advice from the victim, who “three years after the events is still devastated”.
The baker made “references to the color of my client’s skin by saying something like: here, we work like niggers,” she added.
Prosecutions do not target racist insult because contempt is more seriously punished
Faced with the aggressiveness of the manager, the labor inspection agents left, without being able to complete their inspection. “It is enough to insult a labor inspector to escape control and we are fine,” she continued.
“Despite the fact that the comments made towards my client were racist, the proceedings do not target racist insult because contempt is more seriously punished,” said the lawyer. The public prosecutor recalled that the victim was not in his first procedure linked to racist acts, but it is reaching “today saturation”.
To support him, no less than four labor inspection staff were present, including the regional director and her deputy director. The Departmental Directorate of Employment, Labor and Solidarity also became a civil party.
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