« The day of glory has arrived, there are two supervisors who got smoked, three almost died (…) It's the happiest day of my life », shouted from his cell on May 14, Sobhi Abouda, commenting on the news he had discovered the same day on BFMTV. Detained in Villenauxe-la-Grande, this 30-year-old man republished his comments three days later on the phone with his nephew, even though he knows full well that the conversations in the cabin are recorded and listened to.
Particularly unbearable statements for all the country's prison officers, who experienced with sadness and anger the murder of two of their own in the attack on a prison van in the Eure, and which dragged this native of Sarreguemines (Moselle) to explain it before the Troyes court. “ The truth is that the comments I made, when you reread them, they seem like something exaggerated (…) But I don't deserve to be in front of you. In a month, I will have been in prison for 11 years, and I have been holding out for three or four years. I said things, even I don't know why I said them. If I could go back in time, I wouldn't have even woken up that day », swears Sobhi Abouda, by videoconference from the Ouest Aubois detention center, this Monday, November 4.
Faced with “ particularly serious remarks » aimed at “ glorify the facts » (of these assassinations), the prosecution wishes an exemplary sanction for this “ inmate complicated to manage » and requires ten months in prison. “ I apologize, I'm sorry, I'm sorry », Repeats the defendant on the screen, who suggests that the court fine him. “ €1,500! €2,000! Even 3,000 € » he negotiates with the judges for these last words. The Villenauxe inmate ultimately received six months in prison.
