the essential
The Attorney General has just requested 15 to 22 years of criminal imprisonment against the members of the H family, guilty in her eyes of the attempted murder by an organized gang on Sunday March 17, 2019, in the Izards district of Toulouse.
The surprise confessions of Abdelkader H on Monday did not destabilize, far from it, Attorney General Virginie Audebert who has just delivered her indictment before the Haute-Garonne Assize Court. In his eyes, there is no doubt: the people who opened fire on two vehicles, and their occupants, on the morning of Sunday March 17, 2019 in the Izards district, in Toulouse, are in the box. Whether they are a shooter, like Abdelkader or a director like Aymen “whose role is essential in the organization in this attempted murder by an organized gang”.
A crime punishable by life imprisonment reminds the general advocate to the jurors, who, conscientiously, take notes throughout this indictment of more than 2 hours. The spokesperson for the prosecution forgets nothing, and especially by the surprise version given by Abdelkader yesterday morning which she carefully criticizes.
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The denunciation of two “new” accomplices, one since executed, the other disappeared from the radar, is a maneuver. “They seek to protect the people present alongside him,” said the general counsel. But she doesn’t just deliver that feeling. Piece after piece, she demonstrates the impossibility of the surprise theory.
A second surprise shooter
And if she shows understanding towards Aline, who rented “for love” a box where weapons and stolen cars were found, and Bastien who kept a weapon for a time, she actually surprises Florian T, free under electronic bracelet, the second shooter. “This is my conviction,” warns the attorney general, detailing the charges. They find in particular the reasons for his involvement in the flight of this 28-year-old boy to Spain with the H cousins and the presence of his “mixed” DNA on the weapons.
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She requires 22 years’ imprisonment for her, as for Abdelkader H. For Mehdi H, absent on the day of the events “but very present before and after”, she demands 15 years’ imprisonment. Finally against Aymen H, “dismissed from drug trafficking” and necessarily “motivated” to find his place and therefore to eliminate “two people, the victims, who played a major role in the trafficking”, it requires 18 years of criminal imprisonment.
The defense lawyers, Mr.es Marie-Ange Alexis and Serge Capel are currently pleading for the defense of Aline and Bastien, against whom the prosecution has requested 3 and 5 years in prison, the majority of which will be suspended. The pleadings will continue this Tuesday afternoon and tomorrow morning.
Verdict now expected Wednesday evening.
