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Three people were arrested in Bayonne for threatening nurses and inciting them to move out of fear of the coronavirus. Two of them have already appeared in court and have been sentenced.
Sunday, March 29, three nurses returned from a night on call in Bayonne. Living in the same residence in the Arrousets district, they had the unpleasant surprise of finding threatening anonymous letters in their mailboxes, asking them to move so as not to risk infecting their neighborhood with coronavirus, reports AFP.
A couple, a man and a woman aged 27 and 28, living in the same neighborhood, were arrested on Thursday. The police were able to find them thanks to fingerprints identified on one of the letters. As of Friday, they appeared before the correctional court of Bayonne within the framework of an appearance on preliminary recognition of guilt (CRPC), a simplified procedure also called "plead guilty", indicates Agence France-Presse. The couple was sentenced to 120 hours of community service for "violence against health personnel resulting in incapacity for work", with regard to "psychological repercussions suffered", explains the parquet. The two people accepted the sentence proposed by the prosecution.
The two crows implicate a third person, a 58-year-old man, who was arrested on Friday, and is also being prosecuted for "violence against health personnel". The prosecution explains that, unlike the couple, "he doesn't recognize the facts", and he will be heard by the court on July 2, 2020. According to the court, "Above all, there is a lot of immaturity in this business, they did not realize the consequences of what they were doing".
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by Mélodie Capronnier