The verdict will not come until the end of the day, this Friday, November 8, at the Nantes court. But already, at the end of her pleading before the Loire-Atlantique Assize Court, Cécile de Oliveira, the lawyer for the 24-year-old man, accused of a fatal fire, points to a hearing having “revealed glaring flaws”. And talks about a story that “could have led to a miscarriage of justice”.
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The fire started in a sofa
Just before, the attorney general, Raphaël Schmale, requested the acquittal of Teddy Gohaud, in pre-trial detention, since his indictment in this case. On the night of May 10 to 11, 2022, at the end of a very agitated evening, against a backdrop of nervousness and heavy consumption of alcohol, accompanied by cannabis, Amaury Berst, 35, died in the violent house fire. in which he had been staying for several months. The fire had started in the sofa in the living room, on the ground floor. His twin brother, the only civil party represented by Me Loïc Cabioch testified at the bar on Thursday evening.
24 months in prison with suspended probation
Defended by lawyer Aristote Toussaint, another young accused, aged 21, is judged free for the arson of a cart parked near the accommodation, before it was engulfed in flames the same evening . A crime that he admitted. Twenty-four months in prison suspended for a period of two years were requested against him.
At the beginning of the afternoon, the jurors will lock themselves in the deliberations room.
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