The prosecution of Rennes (Ille-et-Vilaine) requested this Friday six months suspended prison sentence against an anti-Linky activist. The latter had dismantled 92 concentrators allowing the operation of these smart meters, acts he claimed in the name of “the preservation of health”. The criminal court reserved its judgment until Monday, at 2 p.m.
“It is not the Jean Moulin of low frequency waves, it is not the martyr of the cause”, launched the vice-prosecutor Pierre Chuchkoff in his indictment, referring to the most famous of the French resistance fighters during the Second World War (1939-1945).
He explains that he acted in a state of “self-defense”
A 58-year-old computer scientist, Christophe M. was tried for having dismantled, during the year 2020, a total of 92 Linky concentrators throughout the Brittany region. These devices allow smart meters to automatically send metering readings to the Enedis electricity distributor. Dressed in a light blue jumpsuit with hood supposed to protect him from electromagnetic waves, the defendant explained that he had acted in a state of “self-defense”.
By dismantling the concentrators, it did not cause a power cut or prevent the meters from working, but only cut off the transmission of information and the emission of electromagnetic waves, he explained. “It’s not something you do with a good heart. If I have come to this end, it is for a reason of survival “, affirmed at the bar the defendant who says” impacted by the waves “and lives with a disability pension. “It is an action of self-defense in the face of a kind of denial and oppression on life,” he added.
The defendant notably dismantled concentrators close to places where other people who were intolerant to electromagnetic waves lived. “Despite intolerance to airwaves, do you have a cell phone? Asked the president. “It is not the same waves as the Linky meter”, replied Christophe M. by ensuring to keep his phone in airplane mode, which the deputy prosecutor contested, who stressed that the investigators were able to follow him thanks to the demarcation of his telephone during dismantling operations.
Enedis claimed 47,165 euros in financial damage from him. For the defense, Me Jérôme Bouquet-Elkaïm pleaded for the release by invoking “the state of necessity”, a concept which allows to exonerate the criminal responsibility of a person to avoid a greater damage.