Damien Tarel, the man who was arrested for slapping French President Emmanuel Macron has been given four months in jail.
Tarel told the court it was an act of impulse, but the prosecutor said it was a “deliberate act of violence”.
President Macron said the attack should not be trivialised but had to be kept in proportion.
A second suspect who filmed the incident is facing prosecution for illegal possession of weapons after local authorities searched his home. He comes from the same town as Damien Tarel.
