Did Mohamed die from the blows he received or from the consequences of his fall on the asphalt? This is what the departmental criminal court in Évry-Courcouronnes (Essonne) will have to determine after five days of hearing. In this case, four accused, now aged 27 to 33, have been appearing since Monday for having caused the death, without intention of causing it, of this 27-year-old man after a series of fights on July 4, 2019 in Savigny -on-Barley.
Sitting in the box for three of them and on a chair facing the court for the fourth, who appears free, the accused listen to the summary of the facts without blinking. On July 4, 2019, around 7 p.m., the police were called after a fight which broke out in front of the Le Corot bar, Place Davout in Savigny-sur-Orge.
When they arrived there, a victim was lying on the ground in the neighboring street. Seriously injured, the 27-year-old man was taken to La Pitié Salpêtrière hospital with a life-threatening prognosis. Despite medical treatment, Mohamed died four days later. The autopsy revealed that he suffered from significant head trauma.
Witnesses “in permanent anguish”
To trace the four accused, investigators collected numerous testimonies. Among them, passers-by, people who know the people involved or even local residents. Witnesses who, the vast majority of them, did not wish to come and speak before the criminal court. “Since our minutes were made public, we have lived in permanent anxiety,” one of them explained in an email addressed to the court.
Associated with the use of video surveillance images, these stories allowed investigators to reconstruct the chronology of events. “At 4 p.m., there was a first altercation in front of the Le Corot bar,” summarizes the president. It is an exchange of blows between the victim and the main accused. A few minutes later, do it again. The two men fight again.
A few hours later, a third fight broke out, still in front of the bar. This time, the victim returned with his cousins and “sprayed the audience” with a can of tear gas. One of the accused then “kicked” him in the lower abdomen before he fled.
The last episode takes place in front of the front of a hairdresser on the Grande-Rue. The accused, who are traveling in a car, come across the victim, who profusely insults one of them. He gets out of the vehicle and hits Mohamed who collapses to the ground in front of the O'Tacos sign. “I wanted to offer my condolences to the family,” said the perpetrator. I never wanted it to happen like this and for him to die. » During the first morning of the hearing, the reasons for the altercation remained unclear… “A misunderstanding about a loan of old money” was simply mentioned.
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