A 49-year-old man was tried on Friday April 11 in immediate appearance in Metz (Moselle), after having uttered death threats in a public park located in Montigny-lès-Metz, reports The Lorraine Republican. He was finally released following a procedural defect.
The facts occurred Wednesday afternoon at the Metz botanical garden, located in Montigny-lès-Metz. The defendant, a Kosovar national, threatened a first decapitation woman, while shouting several times “Allah Akbar”. A second walker was intimidated when he exhibited a concealed knife in his bag. The man was in a state of intoxication, with almost two grams of alcohol per liter of blood.
The respondent, which has ten mentions in his criminal record, was arrested in a street near the park. At the time of his arrest, he sent homophobic remarks to a municipal policewoman.
The absence of interpreter
Presented before the Metz Criminal Court, he was to answer for several leaders: death threats in a recurrence, violence on a person in a manifest state of drunkenness, and outrage to a person depositary of the public authority. His lawyer, Maître Elliot Hellenbrand, raised a procedural defect. The accused did not benefit from the presence of an interpreter at the start of his police custody, nor during the psychiatric examination.
This irregularity led the court to pronounce the relaxation on all the reproach crimes. The forty -something man was nevertheless sentenced to a sentence of 140 hours of work of general interest to carry prohibited weapon. He wore a knife whose blade measured 6 centimeters.
An OQTF delivered
In addition, an obligation to leave French territory (OQTF) was issued against him by the prefecture during his police custody. He was transferred under escort to the administrative detention center (CRA) of Queuleu.
