2023-09-16 13:10:09
At the very end of the hearing and with lip service, this taciturn 75-year-old man asked for “forgiveness”. But his attitude during these three days of hearing before the Essonne Assize Court, in Évry-Courcouronnes, was not likely to reassure the court of a risk of repeat offenses. And this despite his advanced age. M’Hamed K.-D was sentenced this Friday to twelve years of criminal imprisonment, with a security sentence of six years, for attempted murder by a spouse, violence with a weapon against his daughter and death threats.
As of March 3, 2021, the accused has been separated from his 74-year-old wife for four months. The latter decided to leave the family home after filing several complaints since 2016 for death threats and violence. It was probably by chance that he saw his wife in the Carrefour de Villabé parking lot. He grabs a machete from his trunk and approaches his wife. Zerfa is loading groceries into her car with her daughter Yasmina and her two children aged 3 and 6.
” Is it dangerous ? Yes “
While her back is turned to him, M’Hamed K.-D strikes her violently on the head with a machete. Yasmina intervenes and has three fingers severed. His mother was taken to hospital in serious condition. The accused fled and will be arrested the same evening. At the hearing he assured that it was an “accident” and that he was not in his “normal state”. He also pointed the finger at his daughter, accusing her of being responsible for what had happened and of having thrown herself on the machete to harm herself.
“He is still threatening and has not evolved much in two years,” worries the lawyer for the civil parties. “There is a total absence of introspection, of questioning. He blames his victims for whom he shows total disinterest. Is it dangerous ? Yes, and the psychologist and psychiatrist experts are pessimistic,” adds the attorney general, who requested a sentence of 14 years of criminal imprisonment.
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