Nitrogen Bottle Throws Against the Russian Consulate in Marseille: the Penalty of One of the Two Lightened Researchers on Appeal

Only to appeal, Vasile Heresanu, had his sentence turned into a suspended sentence. The Court of Appeal upheld his guilt for the offence of unauthorized manufacture of explosive devices, but released him for the offence of attempted degradation.

One of the two researchers from Marseilles of the CNRS, sentenced to eight months in prison for throwing bottles of liquid nitrogen against the Russian consulate in Marseilles at the end of February, was sentenced to a suspended sentence on Monday by the Court of Appeal.

A French appeals court on Monday reduced the sentence of one of the two scientists who threw an explosive device into the premises of the Russian consulate in Marseille in February. The court accepted some of the defense's objections and changed the original eight-month unconditional sentence to a suspended one, AFP reported. The consulate had already described the original sentence as lenient and demanded a harsher punishment for an act it desc…