Bridge Scaling Tourist Sentenced to Community Service

Yonathan Souid, the 23-year-old Jewish college student from France who was arrested last month for scaling the Brooklyn Bridge at the end of his trip to New York for a Chabad-sponsored Shabbaton, was sentenced yesterday to 240 hours of community service.

From the Associated Press:

A French tourist will have to spend 240 hours cleaning a Manhattan jail for scaling the Brooklyn Bridge to take photos.

Yonathan Souid of Esnandes, France, got the community service sentence on Tuesday. The French university student will be assigned to the Manhattan Detention Center.

His lawyer said Souid “prefers cleaning a jail than to actually live in one.”

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3 Comments

  • immigration

    So, they extend tourist visas to allow community service work? Sounds like a plan

  • bn

    maybe the community service should be for alot of people who do public offenses. It will teach them responsibility (which maybe some people never had) . AND, maybe they can clean the gutters, so that somehow we don’t have to have this insensible parking rules which so badly affects the quality of life