{"id":25486,"date":"2025-07-27T07:39:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T07:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/25486\/"},"modified":"2025-07-27T07:39:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T07:39:08","slug":"suspended-prison-sentence-given-to-tour-de-france-stage-17-intruder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/25486\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspended prison sentence given to Tour de France stage 17 intruder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stage 17 of the 2025 <a href=\"https:\/\/cyclinguptodate.com\/tour-de-france\" title=\"Tour de France\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tour de France<\/a> was marred by a reckless<br \/>\nact just moments before the sprint finish in Valence. A man tried to ride<br \/>\nacross the finish line only minutes before the peloton arrived, in wet and<br \/>\nslippery conditions that made the situation even more hazardous. The stage was<br \/>\nwon by Jonathan Milan, but attention quickly turned to the alarming breach of<br \/>\nsecurity.<\/p>\n<p>Had it not been for the rapid response from police stationed<br \/>\nat the finish, the outcome could have been far worse. Officers tackled the<br \/>\nintruder to the ground, preventing any interference with the sprint finish or<br \/>\npotential harm to the riders. AFP confirmed that the man was arrested on<br \/>\nWednesday and taken into custody.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutor Laurent de Caigny said the man was charged with<br \/>\n\u201centering a sports competition area and disrupting the competition, refusing to<br \/>\ncomply and assaulting a person in a position of public authority.&#8221; He has<br \/>\nbeen ordered to pay \u20ac500 in damages to the police officer who subdued him and<br \/>\nreceived a suspended sentence. In addition, he\u2019s been banned from attending any<br \/>\nsports venue for the next five years. The prosecutor also revealed that the<br \/>\nindividual had previously been convicted three times.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>This wasn\u2019t the only disruption seen at this year\u2019s race.<br \/>\nEarlier, during Stage 11 in Toulouse, another person ran onto the course near<br \/>\nthe finish line wearing a protest shirt. While the Tour de France is no<br \/>\nstranger to crowd incidents, this year\u2019s race has been particularly affected by<br \/>\npolitically charged disruptions and lapses in security.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stage 17 of the 2025 Tour de France was marred by a reckless act just moments before the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25487,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,63,784,85],"class_list":["post-25486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cycling","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}