CIt was an employee of a snack bar who raised the alarm. On February 18, around 1 a.m., a brawl broke out on rue Sainte-Catherine, on the Place du Général-Sarrail, in Bordeaux. Protagonists are armed with iron bars; a young man is chased and stabbed in the stomach. His attackers…
CIt was an employee of a snack bar who raised the alarm. On February 18, around 1 a.m., a brawl broke out on rue Sainte-Catherine, on the Place du Général-Sarrail, in Bordeaux. Protagonists are armed with iron bars; a young man is chased and stabbed in the stomach. His attackers fled before the police arrived. Rushed to hospital, the victim was left unable to work for fourteen days. The boy, already known to the justice system under several identities, is heard on his hospital bed. He delivers few elements and disappears as soon as his health improves.
Four months later, he did not appear as a civil party before the Bordeaux Criminal Court, which immediately tried one of his alleged attackers, this Monday, June 24. PSG jersey on his back, this 22-year-old man in a very precarious situation, who left Algeria and his family in the hope of a better future in France and has survived in squat since his arrival in 2018, recognizes to have been present. And armed with an iron bar. “It was a mistake and I apologize. But I didn’t hit anyone. » Recognized by the victim before she disappeared, he was not named as the author of the stabbings.
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The causes of the dispute remain unclear. “The motive is undoubtedly linked to drug debt problems,” thinks the prosecutor, Frédérique Porterie. “We are in the heart of the city and the debates that have occupied us for some time in Bordeaux. With people walking around with weapons, a well-known victim who prefers to disappear, for fear of reprisals. The facts have been criminalized but they are similar to an attempted murder,” continues the magistrate, before requiring three years in prison and ten years of ban from French territory.
In defense, Me Saad Berrada chokes up: “The people involved in the violence have not been found. I urge you not to follow these requisitions. »
The young man was sentenced to six months in prison and returned to prison that evening.
