2023-11-20 22:10:34
A 75-year-old man who stabbed a gardener in the throat of a gardener who was working on Friday in Villecresnes (Val-de-Marne), after uttering racist insults against him, was arrested and placed under judicial supervision Monday, November 20, announced the Créteil public prosecutor’s office.
The offenses retained are “violence with use of a weapon” et “non-public insult based on origin, ethnicity, nation, race or religion”specified the public prosecutor to Agence France-Presse, confirming information from online media StreetPress. But according to the victim’s lawyer, Me Hosni Maati, « pour [s]our client, this is indeed an attempted homicide”.
Friday around 2 p.m., the septuagenarian lost his temper when he noticed that a van from a gardening company was blocking his exit from a dead end. “You dirty bastard”he said in particular before grabbing a cutter and cutting ten centimeters in length into the throat of the 29-year-old gardener, detailed a police source.
Condemnations of a racist act on the left
According to this same source, this version of the facts is corroborated by a video taken by the victim and two videos from video surveillance cameras, one of which was broadcast Monday evening by Médiapart.
“Within a few centimeters, he could have hit the jugular or the carotid artery. My client thought he was going to die”insisted Me Maati.
The young father’s injury resulted in fifteen days of ITT (temporary work interruption).
The leader of La France insoumise, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, condemned Monday on X a “vile attempt at Arabophobic throat-slitting”while the boss of the Socialist Party Olivier Faure mentioned on the same social network and “freewheeling racism”.
“Rebellious” deputies from Val-de-Marne were also outraged at X, including Rachel Keke calling for “fight racism”while Louis Boyard, Mathilde Panot and Clémence Guetté described the attack as “racist”.
The septuagenarian will have to appear in court on May 16, 2024, the prosecution said.
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