The jurors delivered their verdict this Friday evening, after 2 hours 45 minutes of deliberation. For 4 days, the Assize Court of Appeal returned to the facts of July 26, 2019, in the early morning, in front of the Maximus nightclub in Lamentin.
Cédric Chaillotthe main accused aged 39, was retried for having shot Daniel Duville and having caused his death. After appealing, he received a lower sentence than that handed down at first instance: namely 16 years of criminal imprisonmentagainst 20 years of criminal imprisonment the first time.
He was found guilty of intentional violence leading to the death of Daniel Duville.
As a repeat offender and under police escort during his trial, he was also prosecuted “for violence and possession of weapons”. Cedric Chaillot was also found guilty of unintentional injuries with weapons on a second victim, accidentally injured by gunfire,
At the hearing, the Advocate General had requested this Friday 20 years of criminal imprisonment against him. A sentence which was therefore not followed by the jurors, at the end of their deliberations.
Cédric Chaillot, detained since 2019, was prosecuted for having opened fire in July 2019 in the parking lot of the nightclub, injuring two men, one of whom was fatal. He has always denied having wanted to kill and was questioned this Friday on the facts.
A second accused acquitted
On the side of the civil parties, lawyer Louis-Philippe Suttynotes a change in posture compared to the first hearing, “where he made amends”, at the end of his hearing this Friday.
He returned to the facts, he even denied having fired
Alongside the main accused, also appeared, but free, a second accused, prosecuted for “removal of a criminal from arrest or search”. During the first trial, he was sentenced to 18 months in prison for concealing criminals.
During this appeal trial, the attorney general requested an 18-month suspended prison sentence for him, for having piloted the motorcycle from which Cédric Chaillot had opened fire in the direction of Daniel Duville.
Dany-Claude L. was finally acquitted after the four days of hearing.
