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French Influencer\u00a0Amine Mojito, whose real name is\u00a0Ilan M., was recently sentenced to jail following outrage and fear that was generated in France from his syringe prank videos. The\u00a0Paris Criminal Court\u00a0made the ruling on\u00a0Friday, October 3, and sentenced the 27-year-old to\u00a012 months in prison, of which\u00a0six months shall be served in custody, and the rest suspended. Mojito was also fined\u00a0\u20ac1,500 ($1,761) and prohibited from possessing or carrying a gun for three years.<\/p>\n
The prankster went viral when he posted clips wherein he spoofed injecting bystanders with an empty syringe on Parisian streets. They went viral just days before the country\u2019s F\u00eate de la Musique (World Music Day) in June, when France was on edge enough due to unfounded rumors of attacks involving needles at festivals and student parties.<\/p>\n
The court in France convicted Mojito of \u201cviolence with a weapon not resulting in work incapacity.\u201d Prosecutors initially demanded a more severe sentence, 15 months in electronic monitoring for five years, claiming that the jokes knowingly aggravated public outrage in an otherwise volatile context.<\/p>\n
One prosecutor described Mojito as a \u201cpublic menace,\u201d stressing that even though the syringes were empty, the fear they incited was real. Several victims testified to experiencing genuine panic, with one likening the experience to a nightmare given ongoing public health anxieties.<\/p>\n
Mojito, though, defended himself by claiming the videos were never intended to do any damage. \u201cI had had the very bad idea of performing these tricks doing mimicry of what I had seen on the internet, in Spain [and] in Portugal,\u201d he told the court, as published in\u00a0Lib\u00e9ration. \u201cI didn\u2019t think it could hurt people. That was my mistake, I didn\u2019t think of others, I thought of myself.\u201d He went on to detail that the stunt was designed to revive his internet career and to market a physical exercise program, after having experienced, in his own words, a brief period of being an influencer in teen life.<\/p>\n
The case also revealed Mojito\u2019s checkered history. Other than the syringe prank, he has been accused of assault and harassing others in the past, and thus, prosecutors depicted him as a habitual offender who was more interested in internet buzz rather than public safety.<\/p>\n
For close to two months of preliminary detention, Mojito was detained in solitary at one of Europe\u2019s largest prison complexes, Fleury-M\u00e9rogis prison. His defense attorney, Marie Claret de Fleurieu, resisted the heft of the conviction, saying that the decision \u201cbrings the debate back to more reasonable proportions after the first media frenzy\u201d and serves to re-establish equilibrium between \u201cpublic order and [her] client\u2019s constitutional rights.\u201d<\/p>\n
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