A well-known environmentalist in New Caledonia has been given a suspended eight-month jail sentence for attacking and threatening a suspected beche de mer poacher.
Beche de mer is a French name for sea cucumber. Photo: Flickr/ John Turnbull
The case was prompted by last year's release of a video showing Florent Eurisouke hitting a kneeling man and threatening to decapitate him.
The recording was reportedly made two years ago off Cape Bocage near Houailou.
Eurisouke said at the time he lodged a complaint with police over the poaching.
Senior politicians as well as the Human Rights League had condemned the assault.
Eurisouke featured in a documentary which won a top prize at the New Zealand International Film Festival in 2014.
Beche de mer is a French name for sea cucumber.
