French migrant helper Cédric Herrou gets suspended jail term

French migrant helper Cédric Herrou gets suspended jail term

A French farmer who helped migrants to enter France illegally has been given a four-month suspended jail sentence, after prosecutors argued that an earlier suspended fine was too lenient.

Cédric Herrou was sentenced by an appeal court in Aix-en-Provence, near Marseille in the south of France.

He has housed dozens of migrants in caravans on his farm in the Roya valley, in south-east France.

In February he received a suspended 3,000 euro (£2,700) fine.

Prosecutors had sought an eight-month suspended jail term for Herrou, for helping migrants to slip past police after entering from Italy.
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