an undocumented migrant threatens to kill police officers and walks free from court

The scene took place on December 31, in a laundromat in Saint-Nazaire (Loire-Atlantique). During a police check carried out this Tuesday morning, near the establishment located in the sensitive district of Méan-Penhoët, the police were attacked by a 23-year-old undocumented individual. and carrying a knife. In an irregular situation, the young man, however, resists his arrest. He balks and utters death threats against the police officers seeking to control him, handcuff him and take him to the police station. Ultimately handed over to the courts, he emerged free on January 2.

The suspect was heard Thursday during an immediate appearance hearing at the Saint-Nazaire criminal court. The defendant claims to have only reacted to an intervention deemed too forceful by the police at the time of his arrest. As his lawyer recalls, M^e Maud Lesève, the case was reduced to word for word, the police officers present during the operation not having turned on their pedestrian cameras. Law enforcement “are therefore a bit like judge and party in this affair. Obviously, their words have more value than those of a person in an irregular situation”estimates the lawyer in the columns of West France .

Miscarriage of justice

The Saint-Nazaire public prosecutor’s office requested eight months in prison for the young undocumented migrant, already known to the courts and therefore prosecuted that day for acts of “rebellion”, “insults” and “death threats” against persons holding public authority. Or a continued detention of the defendant who had been briefly incarcerated at the end of his police custody. The verdict was quite different, with a simple suspended sentence of eight months. However, this decision would correspond to a judicial error.

“The judge considered that the defendant’s previous conviction was not final, even though it had indeed been notified to the public prosecutor’s office,” precise to Figaro the police lawyer, M^e Sylvie David, meaning that the young man could not be eligible for a new simple suspended sentence. The representative of the public prosecutor also noticed this and announced that he wanted to appeal. The case will be decided on an as yet undetermined date at the Rennes Court of Appeal.