58-year-old computer scientist, Christophe M. was tried for having dismantled, during the year 2020, 92 Linky concentrators throughout Brittany.
The Rennes public prosecutor’s office on Friday requested a six-month suspended prison sentence against an anti-Linky activist who had dismantled 92 concentrators allowing the operation of these smart meters, acts he claimed in the name of “health preservation“.
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The correctional court put its judgment under advisement on Monday January 10 at 2:00 p.m. “It is not the Jean Moulin of low frequency waves, it is not the martyr of the cause“, Launched the vice-prosecutor Pierre Chuchkoff in his indictment.
58-year-old computer scientist, Christophe M. was tried for having dismantled, during the year 2020, 92 Linky concentrators throughout Brittany. These devices allow smart meters to automatically send metering readings to the Enedis electricity distributor.
“Despite intolerance to airwaves, do you have a cell phone?“
Dressed in a light blue jumpsuit with hood supposed to protect him from electromagnetic waves, the defendant explained that he had acted thus in a state of “self-defense“.
By dismantling the concentrators, it did not cause a power cut and did not prevent the meters from working but only cut off the transmission of information and the emission of electromagnetic waves, he explained.
“It is not something that we do with joy of heart. If I got to this end, it’s for a reason of survival“, Asserted at the bar the defendant who said to himself”impacted by waves»And lives on an invalidity pension.
“It is an action of self-defense in the face of a kind of denial and oppression on life“, he added.
The defendant notably dismantled concentrators close to places where other people who were intolerant to electromagnetic waves lived. “Despite intolerance to airwaves, do you have a cell phone?“Asked the president.
“It’s not the same waves as the Linky meter», Replied Christophe M. while ensuring to keep his phone in airplane mode, which disputed the deputy prosecutor who stressed that the investigators had been able to follow him thanks to the demarcation of his phone during the dismantling operations.
Enedis claimed 47,165 euros in financial damage from him.
For the defense, Me Jérôme Bouquet-Elkaïm pleaded for release by invoking “state of necessity», A concept which allows a person to be exonerated from criminal liability in order to avoid greater damage.
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