Provocative Russian protester convicted for French bank fire

PARIS (AP) — A French court has convicted a controversial Russian performance artist for setting fire to an office of France’s central bank.
A judicial official said Friday that Pyotr Pavlensky was sentenced to a year in prison plus a two-year suspended sentence. However, the judge allowed him to walk free when his trial ended Thursday night because Pavlensky had already spent 11 months in pre-trial detention.
He and his estranged wife Oksana Shalygina were ordered to pay 21,000 euro