A teacher in France received a suspended jail sentence on Wednesday after raising an anti-Semitic sign at a demonstration over the country’s coronavirus health pass system.
Cassandre Fristot received a six-month suspended prison sentence after holding a sign on Aug. 12 that went viral in France and was condemned by the interior minister and other politicians, reported AFP.
The sign also included French President Emmanuel Macron and Health Minister Olivier Veran with the question “but who?”—a hashtag used by anti-Semitic conspiracy theorists with the claim that Jews control the media.
The sentence was three months longer than the three-month suspended sentence requested by state prosecutors.
Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin tweeted in August: “Anti-Semitism is a crime, not an opinion.”
