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Ex-Professional Footballer Gets Six Months Under Electronic Tag, Six Suspended, for Assaulting Police Officer

The fast-track case followed a bar-district brawl, leaving the officer unconscious with three days' medical leave.

Overview

  • Police intervened after a late-night brawl near the bar Le Sketch on Mail François‑Mitterrand in Rennes, where the confrontation occurred.
  • The 45-year-old officer was knocked unconscious, suffered a double nasal fracture, was taken to CHU de Rennes, and received three days of ITT; a thumb sprain was also reported.
  • The assailant, about 40 and heavily intoxicated, also struck another officer, told the court he remembered nothing, and did not contest the facts.
  • After police custody and judicial control, he was tried in comparution immédiate and sentenced to six months under electronic monitoring plus six months suspended.
  • Identified as a former Stade Rennais academy player who later played for Caen with no prior record, he apologized in court saying he was ashamed, and the officer accepted his apology.