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01 May 2003

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Two teenage boys are the first to be convicted under a French law that makes “illicit occupation of communal areas of a collective building” punishable by a prison sentence. The teenagers from Roubaix in northern France were each sentenced to a month in prison after hanging around in the hall of an apartment block. The measure, part of a law and order act pushed through by French interior minister Nicolas Sarkozy, came into effect this spring. At the trial the magistrate refused the prosecutor’s request for a suspended sentence as he ’wanted to set an example’.

Guardian, 29.7.03

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