Loir-et-Cher Assize Court
A few minutes after the verdict, Monday 1is July 2024, Amara raised his head in the direction of the three accused, as if he finally dared to look at them without fear. For having attempted to take his life, and causing an amputation of his right leg, Rayan Jemili and Timothée Rasse have just been sentenced to 15 years and 12 years of criminal imprisonment and are returning behind bars. Nassim Labbaoui, under bracelet, joins them there for an 8-year sentence.
A gun to “intimidate” the victim
A relief for the 26-year-old Blésois, who often kept his head down, nervous, seething, during the three days of debates before the Loir-et-Cher Assize Court. The courtroom thus went back three years when it was left in a pool of blood, Place Mirabeau, on May 4, 2021.
Shortly before midnight, three men got out of a grey Peugeot 307 and attacked him. For reasons that are still unclear, “a debt of €12,000” or “an apartment story”a wave of violence nearly cost him his life: a shotgun bullet in the leg, three stab wounds (near the eye and heart) and kicks.
“He was given a life sentence with his pain, similar to that felt by burn victims.”metaphorizes his lawyer, Me Damien Vinet. Justice recognizes him in “his victim status” failing to shed light on the gray areas on this bloody trip.
An attempt to “murder”, decided the jurors while the initial qualification of assassination indicated premeditation by the three delinquents from the northern districts of Blois.
They heard the words of Me Emmanuelle Fossier, defending Nassim (21 years old) and Rayan (23 years old), who admitted to having ” drawn. He had planned to intimidate him with this rifle, without coming with ammunition. It was an unintentional shot, only one shot was fired, from top to bottom » removing the hypothesis “with a shot to the shoulder”.
Nassim, suspected of having kicked, denied everything. “I didn’t see anything, I didn’t do anything, I stayed in the car”he repeated, despite the reminders of the president, Lionel Da Costa Roma.
He fled to Marseille
The denials were more polite for Timothée (23 years old), in a white shirt, who had notably fought with Amara in April 2021. But he assures us that he was not driving that evening and “disputes” having stabbed them. “I was with my girlfriend. » Later, he fled to Marseille because he “caught scared”before going to the police.
“It was an ambush. When you go to a meeting with a knife and a gun, it’s not to play tennis.”M says ironically.e Damien Vinet, convicted of premeditation, like Jean Dematteis, for the public prosecutor (1): “The settling of scores was cleverly organized. The accused spent their time contradicting each other. »
“You have the evidence in this file?” » called out to Me Stéphane Rapin, lawyer, with Me Arthur Prud’homme (2), by Timothée. Both lashed out “the tunnel effect” investigators who abandoned “witnesses and victim’s statements at the hospital” pointing to another culprit.
Like their colleague in defense for Nassim, they demanded an acquittal before “lack of elements” necessary. After 2 hours and 30 minutes of deliberation, the jurors decided otherwise.
(1) He had requested twenty years of imprisonment against Rayan, fifteen against Timothée and thirteen in total for Nassim.
(2) They will “appeal” this decision.
