Sarkozy’s Assailant, Sentenced to Six Months Suspended Jail

Hermann Fuster

The man who assaulted yesterday the president of France, Nicolas Sarkozy, during a visit to the southwest France, was judged and sentenced on Friday on a fast track rather unusual for normal judicial procedures in European courts.

Thus, the court in Agen sentenced Hermann Fuster, 32, to six months suspended jail for having attacked the president of France as a breach in his security was created while Sarkozy was greeting the people in the town of Brax.

The court heard that Fuster texted his ex-wife telling her he wanted to give the president “a smack in the mouth.”

He grabbed Sarkozy by the jacket and threw him off balance before the security detail put the assailant on the ground. Sarkozy was unharmed, he straightened up and continued shaking hands.

The incident though was caught on camera and was broadcasted all over the world by every television channel.

Fuster said he wanted to “talk smack” with the president and that the texts sent to his ex were a joke.

His lawyer argued that Hermann Fuster was an “indignant,” a social movement of protest, and that his action towards the president was a means to tell him he had enough of his rule.

Fuster appeared in the dock with Gothic skull designs on, with a black ponytail. He made no comment after the sentence, got in the car and drove away.

Attack on Sarkozy

The sentence was pronounced on the count of “violence against a person holding public authority.”

Sarkozy did not press any charges against Fuster, and it is not the first time he got involved in altercations, nor is he the only leader of Europe or the United States to have gone through this.

In 2008, George W. Bush was attacked by an Iraqi journalists with a shoe, during a conference in Baghdad.

Silvio Berlusconi was hit in the face by a citizen a few years back, while former British PM Tony Blair was attacked with eggs during a book signing in Dublin.

The heir to the throne of England, Prince Charles, heard the words “Death to the King!” words unspoken since the times of Charles Stuart, during the demonstrations in London last Fall.

Romanian president was shouted slogans that remind of those shouted to the dictator Ceausescu, who was executed during the revolution in 1989.