Vegan reign of fear over

A COURT in northern France has handed jail terms to two vegan activists for a string of attacks on butchers, shops and restaurants selling meat, after a trial that lawyers said was the first of its kind in the country.

The court in Lille handed the pair prison terms of 10 and six months over the attacks on businesses in France from November 2018 to February 2019. The couple, a 23-year-old youth worker named Cyrile and a 29-year-old employee at a kindergarten called Mathilde, were convicted of criminal damage after breaking windows and starting fires.