2023-07-01 02:39:27
They come from Seine-et-Marne and Hauts-de-Seine, have youthful faces and blank lockers for the majority. Friday, June 30, about twenty individuals were tried in immediate appearance at the Nanterre judicial court, for their participation, more or less active, in the violence which punctuated Ile-de-France, in reaction to the death of Nahel M ., a 17-year-old minor killed during a roadside check in Nanterre (Hauts-de-Seine), Tuesday, June 27.
Rarely, the immediate appearances were divided into two rooms. In room 4, five young people were tried for rebellion, violence against the police or degradation. If all recognize their presence on the scene of the riots, all plead chance: they were there in the wrong place at the wrong time. However, it is difficult to convince the court. It will not take him more than fifteen minutes of deliberation to decide and announce prison sentences with a warrant of committal at the end of the hearing for three of the young people.
Only one defendant, Cédric E., was released. The paramedic, tried for having, on the night of June 29 to 30, attempted to steal three televisions in the Conforama of Colombes (Hauts-de-Seine), was released. He had admitted to having gone to the store, vandalized and looted, but claimed not to have stolen the televisions. The prosecutor had requested an eight-month suspended prison sentence because of the multi-recidivist nature of the 30-year-old, but had agreed that the latter had simply “ engulfed in the breach ».
“I would have done better to stay with my mother”
Yvan Daniel W., 18, was sentenced to a sentence in the form of ” warning “. He was on trial for having been present next to a minor who set fire to a trash can in Issy-les-Moulineaux. Tells him to have just accompanied the youngster and regret for not having dissuaded him. ” I’m not proud of it but I’m not a criminal “, he advances. This did not convince the court which retained the coaction. The young man, who has just finished a welding CAP, was sentenced to 240 hours of community service, while the prosecution had requested eight months in prison. At this announcement, his mother did not hide her relief.
On the other hand, for the others, the sentences were sometimes heavy. Amaury I., 22, was sentenced to six months in prison for “rebellion”, “participation in a group to commit violence” and “violence against a police officer without incapacity for work”. On the evening of June 28, while the police who were intervening in the city of Damades in Nanterre were thrown stones, he was arrested on a roof from which the projectiles would come. ” I would have done better to stay with my mother “, he says – at these words, his mother bursts into tears – before assuring that he was only a “watchman”. The young man, who works part-time in catering, denounces a “ violent arrest and racial slurs but denies any resentment towards the police.
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