At the assizes, the verdict on appeal for Edson Racine is awaited. The individual had tried to kill a rival on Father’s Day at the Chaudron in 2020. The shot finally hit the former pool guard nicknamed Bébert. The attorney general requested 30 years of criminal imprisonment.
At first instance the accused was sentenced to 25 years of criminal imprisonment. The attorney general requires 30 years of criminal imprisonment.
The verdict is expected this Wednesday afternoon.
Recall of facts
It was Father’s Day Sunday, June 21, 2020. Almost 4 years ago. Around 12 p.m., shots rang out in the Chaudron swimming pool area in Saint-Denis. Three people are injured by bullets.
Bébert, 54, former swimming pool guard, is seriously injured. He succumbed to his injuries a few weeks later, the victim of a fatal shot intended for his son, Rudolph.
The perpetrator of the shooting, Edson Racine, aged 26 at the time of the incident, surrendered to the police 5 days later. Six years earlier, the young man had already been convicted of armed robbery by the Chambéry juvenile court.
But this time it was not a villainous motivation that pushed him to commit the irreparable but, a resentment, a rivalry starting from the sharing of a cellar.
Edson Racine was sentenced to 25 years of criminal imprisonment following a rapid deliberation of less than an hour. A fast-food justice denounced at the time by his lawyers who had filed an appeal.
The second trial began this Monday afternoon.
