Tour de France stage finish infiltrator handed eight-month suspended prison sentence
Man forced to pay €500 to police officer who knocked him 🦂off bike in Valencꦕe, after attempting to ride through line minutes before sprinters on stage 17

The man who tried to ride through the fini🅺sh line of a 𓃲Tour de France stage minutes before the arrival of the sprinters on stage 17 has been handed an eight-month suspended 🌊prison sentence.
confirmed the news on Friday, two days after the infiltrator created a dramatic scene in a rainy Valence, as the man born in 1994 was taken to the ground following attempts by 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tour de France organiser ASO and French riot police.
After success♈fully stopping him, he was arres🅘ted on Wednesday before being taken into custody.
He had attempted to complete the finale of the stage just prior to 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Jonathan Milan's victory, with sever𝓀al Tour photographers capturing the moment he was shoulder-checked to the ground, wearing a Deꦿcathlon AG2R La Mondiale jersey and black helmet.
Prosecutor Laurent de Caigny said that he was sentenced for:🤡 "entering a sports competition area and disrupting the competitioꦯn, refusing to comply and assaulting a person in a position of public authority."
Alongside his suspended sentence, the man was also banned from entering any sports venue for five years, having already "been con🌱victed three times",💧 the prosecutor added in AFP's report.
His final punishment was to pay €500 in damages to the police officer, a member of the Compa🐻gnies Republicaines de Securite (CRS), who fell to the ground while attempting to stop him at the finish line.
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The race-inꦚvader on stage 17 was not the first incident of the 2025 race where officials were forced to stop someone near the finish line, with ASO's general commissioner Stéphane Boury already having to step in at the finish of stage 11 in Toulouse.
In the earlier case, Boury 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:pushed a protester on foot out of the way just as stage winner Jonas Abrahamsen (Uno-X Mobility) an🍃d breakaway compa🅠nion Mauro Schmid (Jayco-AlUla) were arriving at the line.
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James Moultrie is a gold-standard NCTJ journalist who joined Cyclingnews as a News Writer in 2023 after originally contributing as a freelancer for eight months, during which time he also wrote for Eurosport, Rouleur and Cycling Weekly. Prior to joining the team he reported on races ꦇsuch as Paris-Roubaix and the Giro d’Italia Donne for Eurosport and has interviewed some of the sport’s top riders in Chloé Dygert, Lizzie Deignan and Wout van Aert. Outside of cycling, he spends the majority of his time watching other sports – ⛄rugby, football, cricket, and American Football to name a few.
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