PARIS
The leader of a dissolved far-right group in France was sentenced to one year in prison, local media reported on Friday.
Marc de Cacqueray-Valmenier, the leader of now dissolved Zouaves Paris (ZVP), was sentenced to one year in prison over the June 2020 attack with baseball bats and tear gas at a bar in Paris.
He was banned from participating in demonstrations because of violence at a December rally by far-right presidential candidate Eric Zemmour last year and was detained on Thursday for joining an anti-vaccine demonstration on Jan. 15.
The ZVP was dissolved with a Cabinet decision on Jan. 5 over violence at Zemmour's rally.
In November 2020, Cacqueray-Valmenier had announced that he joined Armenian ranks in Nagorno-Karabakh to fight Azerbaijanis.