The Court of Cassation confirmed on Wednesday the conviction for aggravated violence of Marc de Cacqueray-Valmenier, alleged ex-leader of the dissolved ultra-right group “the Zouaves”. The 24-year-old man was sentenced on June 29, 2022, to a four-month suspended prison sentence by the Versailles Court of Appeal, for aggravated violence and threats. The highest court nevertheless requested a new trial concerning the prosecution for threats.
The “Zouaves Paris” (ZVP), an ultra-right group of around twenty members that appeared in 2017, was dissolved in January 2022.
The facts judged took place in March 2017 “in the context of a conflict with a young man from the anti-fascist movement”, indicated a judicial source. According to the judgment of the Court of Cassation consulted, Marc de Cacqueray-Valmenier was prosecuted, among other things, for having said: “as long as I have not jumped you, I will not leave you alone”.
Razor blades hidden near victim’s home
According to the judicial source, the former Zouaves leader also went to the victim’s home in March 2017, introducing himself to his mother as a friend of the young man. She then told him that her son was absent. The victim’s brother then found stickers of the small group pasted near the home, and under these posters, razor blades.
The threats made by Marc de Cacqueray-Valmenier were notably sent by messages on social networks. The highest court of the French judicial order nevertheless censored the decision of the Court of Appeal on a procedural point related to this offense of threats. Thus, a third trial for these facts must take place in Versailles.
Marc de Cacqueray-Valmenier is also to be tried on September 8, 2023 before the Paris court, accused with six other men of having met in December 2022 after the semi-final of the France-Morocco World Cup with a view to committing violence. or damage to property.
He is also indicted and placed under judicial supervision in a case heard in the court of Bobigny (Seine-Saint-Denis), suspected of having participated in the violence which targeted anti-racist activists during a meeting of the extreme candidate right to the presidential Éric Zemmour in Villepinte, in December 2021.