A French TikToker who pranked people on the streets of Paris by pretending to inject them with syringes has been sentenced to six months in prison.

Amine Mojito, whose real name is Ilan M., became a viral sensation after he started posting social media clips wherein he spoofed injecting bystanders with an empty syringe around Paris, during a time when genuine fear of such attacks was at an all-time high. After being accused of “violence with a weapon not resulting in work incapacity,” the popular TikToker defended himself by claiming that he never intended to hurt people, and that he only copied the prank from other countries in order to promote himself. However, prosecutors showed that some of his victims were so traumatized by the sick prank that they had to be hospitalized for mental health assessments.