Murder of the gardens of the City Hall of Rouen: the prosecution appeals
Accused of the murder of a 46-year-old man in September 2019, a 17-year-old young man appeared had been sentenced to 12 years imprisonment on Friday, November 26, 2021.
The prosecution has appealed against the 12-year prison sentence for the murder of a 46-year-old man in 2019 in Rouen, “because of the seriousness of the facts”, the public prosecutor said on Saturday, December 4, 2021 from the city.
The minor, aged 15 at the time of the crime, was sentenced on November 26 to
12 years of criminal imprisonment by the juvenile court, during a closed trial for the murder of a chef. The prosecution had requested 18 years in prison.
The drama occurred in 2019 in the gardens of Rouen city hall, at night. “It’s an outburst of violence, they beat him. They used a blunt object, a priori a large stone (…) They leave him dead and naked”, announced during the trial Me Fabien Picchiottino, the victim’s family lawyer.
The appeal of the Rouen prosecutor’s office is “motivated by the fact that the sentence appears to me insufficient in view of the gravity of the facts and the circumstances of their commission”Rouen prosecutor Frédéric Teillet told AFP.
Another person, aged 17 in 2019, has yet to appear before the juvenile assize court for the same facts. At the hearing, the young man had admitted “having struck several blows, while explaining that he was not the author of the fatal stone throws”, explained his lawyer, Me Laura Kalfon.
The examination of the personality of her client had shown, according to her, that the young man “a victim of abuse”, undergoing “physical violence” from his mother.