Toulouse: Stabbed in a pizzeria: 4 years closed for the attacker
A 24-year-old man was sentenced on Wednesday to 4 years in prison for stabbing a customer of a pizzeria in September in Toulouse.
He was quietly attacked on the evening of Tuesday, September 28 at a pizzeria in the Borderouge district of Toulouse when a young man had pounced on him armed with a knife and had violently stabbed him in the shoulder. This 46-year-old man was able to face his attacker this Wednesday afternoon as part of the immediate comparisons of the Toulouse Criminal Court.
The atmosphere is tense in the Salle des Pas Perdus where two clans shout at each other. At the hearing, calm prevails. In the box, as during his police custody, the man denies being the author of the stab which caused the victim 21 days of total work stoppage. He concedes a complicity. On the day of the events, the tone had risen, a little earlier between neighbors during a move because of the noise. Insults, threats … things had stopped there. The victim was participating in the move. The suspect recounts the following: “My sister called me in tears and asked me to come and get her because she was afraid. When she arrived, she told me what had happened earlier. during the day. I asked him to send me a picture of the person and dropped it off. Then some friends told me they were going to take care of him and advised me to make up the faceplate. registration.”
“So you were going to intervene!” Summarizes the president. Placed in custody at the end of the rapid investigation of the police officers of the unit of attacks against the people of the Right Bank, the man refused to give names. “For fear of reprisals”. And he staunchly maintained that he was left-handed while the assailant was right-handed. But when signing his audition report, he used his right hand. “I did not know he was going to be stabbed, he assures. It all fell on me, I was not counting assault and aggression.”
For the prosecutor, “what marks out this file, it is the lie, from the beginning to the end. He lies to each question. These are serious facts, the victim could have died. He faces 20 years in prison and does not. is not in a position to give names! He is a dangerous, violent and very impulsive person, able to go and take justice into his own hands. ” And to require 5 years in prison. For the defense, Me Alexandre Parra-Bruguière tempers: “Is the liar necessarily guilty? He did not foresee the extent.” And to plead “reasonable doubt”. The 24-year-old man, with a record of convictions for violence, was sentenced to 4 years in prison.