The 27-year-old was sentenced to 12 months in jail by the Paris Criminal Court on Friday, October 3, with the remaining time suspended and six months to be served in imprisonment.
In addition, Mojito received a €1,500 ($1,761) fine and a three-year ban from owning or carrying a firearm.

When the prankster shared videos of himself injecting onlookers on Parisian streets with an empty syringe, the films went viral.

Days before the nation’s Fête de la Musique (World Music Day) in June, when France was on edge because of baseless reports of needle-wielding attacks at student parties and festivals, the film went viral.

Mojito was found guilty of “violence with a weapon not resulting in work incapacity” by the French court.

At first, prosecutors sought a harsher punishment, 15 months of electronic monitoring for five years, arguing that the jokes intentionally heightened public indignation in a combustible environment. Mojito was referred to as a “public menace” by one prosecutor, who emphasized that although the syringes were empty, the terror they caused was genuine. Given existing public health concerns, one victim compared the experience to a nightmare, while other victims attested to experiencing true panic.

However, Mojito defended himself by saying the recordings were never meant to cause harm.

According to Libération, he told the court, “I had the very bad idea of performing these tricks doing mimicry of what I had seen on the internet, in Spain [and] in Portugal.” “I didn’t believe it could cause harm to people.” I made the error of thinking about myself rather than other people.

He continued by explaining that the purpose of the stunt was to promote a physical fitness program and to resurrect his online career after he had, in his own words, briefly been an influencer in adolescence.