Sentence Is Upheld in McDonald’s Attack
A French appeals court upheld a radical farmer’s three-month prison sentence for ransacking a McDonald’s to protest unchecked globalization.
Jose Bove, a 47-year-old sheep farmer, has become a symbol of anti-globalization activists in France and abroad since he led an attack on a McDonald’s restaurant under construction in the southern town of Millau in August 1999.
The court in Montpellier upheld a September ruling that ordered Bove to spend three months in jail for vandalizing the fast-food restaurant and fined him $870.
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