The State was ordered to pay a little over 1.4 million euros to the City of Paris, to compensate it for the damage caused during the demonstrations of the “yellow vests”, announced the Town Hall of the capital on Friday 6 may.
Two convictions were handed down by the administrative court of Paris and relate to “the period from November 2018 to December 2019”explained the Town Hall in a press release.
Violence and damage in the capital
During this period, Paris had been the scene of the biggest demonstrations of the social movement, regularly punctuated by violence, clashes with the police and damage.
During the first weekends of mobilization, the Arc de Triomphe had in particular been vandalized, and “yellow vests” had forced the entry of the ministry of the former government spokesman, Benjamin Griveaux. In March 2019, the famous Fouquet’s brasserie, on the Champs-Elysées, was set on fire.
In one of the decisions handed down on Wednesday and seen by AFP, the court found that “the damage was indeed committed during demonstrations on the public highway”. “While the presence of black blocs is sometimes mentioned in the reports, the findings also mention degradations committed by demonstrators”observed the court.
“Such degradation is therefore the result of a crowd (…)and not of a group organized and constituted for the sole purpose of committing crimes., he continued. Since then, “the City of Paris is justified in requesting the commitment of the State’s liability. »
The mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, welcomed on Twitter the decision of the administrative court of the capital.
I welcome the decision of the Administrative Court of Paris condemning the State to compensate the City of Paris following the… https://t.co/OxpkVCQ27a
At the end of April, the administrative court had already condemned the State to pay a little more than 1.2 million euros to the municipality and the metropolis of Toulouse, in compensation for the damage caused by the movement of “vests yellow”.