The response from the defense lawyers was not long in coming, this Tuesday, November 26, 2024, before the Gironde Assize Court. Five men are on trial for having actively participated in a cocaine theft which ended in the shooting death of its “owner”, Gary Pan Hung Kuet, on August 11, 2019 in Bordeaux.
Two appear for not having denounced this crime. The day before, Me Olivier Couleau, lawyer for one, pleaded for acquittal. Even the expert psychologist admitted that he did not have the resources within himself to report these facts. Me Alexandre Novion, counsel for the other, indicated that his client, certainly a witness, was “blocked by fear which holds back action”.
“That is to say, it is not necessary for anything. It was of no use. He is there without being there, he does not have the brains on his shoulders”
The criminal qualification of non-denunciation of a crime suited Mr.e Félix Molteni and Guillaume Larre, lawyers for Medhi Moreau, present during this disastrous day and tried for robbery with violence resulting in death. “We must change the legal framework because there is no positive act of preparation or commission of the facts,” invites Me Molteni.
“Not the scale”
“If we rewind the film to the moment when Gary is picked up at the station, if we remove Medhi Moreau from the image, nothing changes,” continues Me Felix Molteni. “That is to say, it is not necessary for anything. It was of no use. He is there without being there, he doesn't have his brains on his shoulders. »
Me Lorette Faby and Christian Blazy defend Damien Drozak, “addict to promised money”. Me Blazy is looking for “how we end up with the death of a thirty-year-old for 6 kilos of coke. Poverty, precariousness, illiteracy, lack of horizon, that’s what unites them. On August 10, 2019, they are not at Cap Ferret for the day or on vacation in Greece, they are holding the walls of the city.”
When Gary Pan Hung Kuet returns from Guyana with a travel bag loaded with cocaine, he brags about it. “He thus participated in his own damage. All these flies that circle around him, lured by gain, have the feeling that it is the coup of the century, while they are very little stupefyers”, nuance Me Christian Blazy. It doesn't matter to him, “in the end”, who came up with the idea. “Damien Drozak participated but did not organize, he does not have the scale. »
“He’s not the boss of Médoquine, we want to make him wear too big a hat”
Me Guerric Brouillou-Laporte criticizes the “initial scenario” which wants to make his client, Adil Kaltmi, “the figurehead”, “the lightning rod”, “more guilty than the others”. Adil Kaltmi admitted to having wanted to get his hands on drugs. “But he wanted to act by ruse, by cunning. It was not him who called the others, not he who had the idea of an armed robbery or of simulating a police intervention,” growls Me Brouillou-Laporte. “He did not take charge of the execution of the facts,” adds M.e Laplagne who deplores “the particular fate of scapegoat” reserved for his client. “He’s not the boss of Médoquine, we want to make him wear too big a hat. »
“Needs an upgrade”
“He told the truth, nothing but the truth, but perhaps not the whole truth,” said Mr.e Victoire Sirol, who defends Yoann Debock. Surprised by the victim on the evening of the robbery, he fired the weapon taken to intimidate and not to kill. “He didn't leave Gary for dead, he thought he had an arm injury. » According to the lawyer, “he never presented himself as the performer because he did not know he was being used, instrumentalized by Adil Kaltmi. Someone who kills without intention is less dangerous than someone who wants to kill and someone who tells the truth is less dangerous than someone who rewrites it. »
Paying tribute to the mothers of this file, Me Marie Touron targets “a primary void impossible to fill, the failure of the father who left elsewhere. Because of this, they feel like their lives have no value. Their peers replaced their fathers with new codes.” In prison, Yoann Debock passed his baccalaureate. Like the others, “he needs an upgrade”. Verdict this Wednesday.
Attorney General Véronique Compan requested up to twenty years of criminal imprisonment against two defendants.
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Up to twenty years required
Cleverly, the attorney general Véronique Compan knows how to cast doubts on the full guilt of some in order to better assert her certainties about that of others. She thus requested an acquittal for a young person tried for non-denunciation of a crime and a year in prison for another. The magistrate also asked for three years and the reclassification of the facts alleged against Medhi Moreau. Placing the person she considers to be the instigator of the facts, Adil Kaltmi, and the shooter, Yoann Debock, on the same level, she requested twenty years of criminal imprisonment. She then put the sentence against Damien Drozak, who went up to the victim's apartment for money, at twelve years, and at fourteen years the sentence that seems fair against repeat offender Marouane Khaled. , defended by Me Georges Parastatis, who disputes any role in the facts.
