Overview
- The tribunal imposed suspended prison sentences ranging from six to 24 months and ordered the convictions not be entered on the officers’ criminal records.
- Judges found the force neither necessary nor proportionate and rejected defenses including necessity, orders from superiors and protection of property.
- Civil damages were referred to the administrative judiciary after the acts were deemed not detached from service, with compensation to be set in a separate proceeding and appeals still possible.
- Multi-angle footage from journalists, protesters and CCTV documented a 2-minute-37-second assault on demonstrators sheltering inside the closed restaurant without prior warning to leave, and the defendants did not attend the verdict.
- Four victims were admitted as civil parties and 16 others remain unidentified, while the officers cited exhaustion and an “insurrectional” context and complained of being abandoned by their hierarchy.