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French Farmer Receives 4-Month Suspended Sentence for Helping Migrants on Border

© AFP 2023 / Boris HORVATPeople applaud French farmer Cedric Herrou as he walks out of the courthouse in Aix-en-Provence on August 8, 2017 during his trial for illegally assisting migrants. Herrou was sentenced to a four month suspended jail sentence for illegally assisting migrants
People applaud French farmer Cedric Herrou as he walks out of the courthouse in Aix-en-Provence on August 8, 2017 during his trial for illegally assisting migrants. Herrou was sentenced to a four month suspended jail sentence for illegally assisting migrants - Sputnik International
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The French court of appeal in the country's southern city of Aix-en-Provence on Tuesday gave a French farmer a four-month suspended sentence for assisting migrants with slipping across the border from Italy, local media reported.

Migrants sit in their tents at a makeshift migrant camp on a street near the metro stations of Jaures and Stalingrad in Paris, France, October 28, 2016. - Sputnik International
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PARIS (Sputnik) The court found Cedric Herrou guilty for "facilitating illegal immigration," the Franceinfo broadcaster reported. Herrou, 38, along with some other people residing in the French-Italian border area, helped transport and shelter migrants, coming from Sudan, Eritrea and Nigeria via the Mediterranean Sea.

Herrou helped about 200 migrants with crossing the border, using his own vehicle, and accommodating them in his farm in the Roya valley in Maritime Alps on France's southern border with Italy, according to the French authorities.

Commenting on the matter, the farmer said as aired on the French television that he "did not regret anything," stressing that it was his civil duty to act where the state was failing.

In February, Herrou was handed a 3,000-euro ($354) penalty by a correctional court in Nice, which, nevertheless, suspended an eight-month prison term for the activist.

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