  Pete Doherty was seen smiling and throwing a defiant peace sign after being slapped with a three-month suspended prison sentence, two years’ probation and a €5,000 (£4,287) fine, according to reports
  The rocker was arrested on Sunday following a drunken fight in the French capital – getting into an altercation with a teenager while celebrating his release from a prison cell
  He had been released from custody on Saturday after being taken in on Thursday for buying cocaine, in a separate incident
  Now, according to French press, he has been handed a suspended sentence for ‘violence that did not result in ITT (temporary interruption of work), intoxicated’
  According to BFM Paris, 40-year-old Doherty was sentenced today to three months in prison suspended, as well as two years of probation and a fine of €5,000
  He was seen leaving a Paris courthouse on Tuesday with his arm wrapped around a friend as he walked along with his lawyer
  According to Quebec publication La Presse, his lawyer, Arash Derambarsh, pleaded exceptional circumstances during the court appearance, reportedly saying: ‘The facts have occurred in a context of stopping the consumption of narcotics for several months
 For this, Doherty takes drugs like Valium which resulted in a somewhat complicated situation
’    He was reported to have added: ‘The effects of alcohol, plus drugs, led him to behave indecently’ and ‘violent’, as he noted that the victims were not injured
  Over the weekend it was reported by Mail Online Pete was spotted throwing punches at a male teen in the Saint-German-des-Pres district of Paris on Sunday
  Doherty’s lawyer said the singer went home to take sleeping pills before heading out again in his pyjamas to celebrate his release from police custody
  Derambarsh reportedly said: ‘[Pete wanted to] go and celebrate his liberation in a bar near him
 He drank and people made him drink.’  However, he allegedly ‘quickly came to blows’ with the teen and it was the 19-year-old man who filed a police complaint, claiming to have been injured in a ‘drunken brawl’
  Before his latest arrest, Doherty had been released following two days in police custody for buying cocaine in the northern Pigalle district of Paris, witnessed by police at 3am
  He was provisionally fined the equivalent of £4,300 for using a banned drug – a sentence which is yet to be approved by a judge
  ‘The suspect was arrested in the Pigalle district, and was carrying two grammes of cocaine, [sic]’ said an investigating source
  ‘The allegation is that he was involved in an illegal street transaction at the time
 He was drunk and did not comply with the police to begin with, but was eventually taken to a police car
’    In the past, Doherty has pleaded guilty to possession of cocaine, heroin, cannabis and ketamine
  In January this year the singer was held for 48 hours and questioned before charges of drug possession and driving-related offenses were later dropped
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