sentenced for threatening the Belle Epoque security guard with a firearm
They appeared in immediate comparison on August 16, 2022, for events that took place on the night of August 13 to 14, 2022. The two men were sentenced by the Dijon Criminal Court to three months in prison for one and five months in prison suspended for the other. That night, after being refused entry to the Belle Epoque nightclub, the two men first threw a bottle of beer at the manager of the establishment, then were called back with a firearm, which one of them points to the agent and the manager. He is the one who receives the heaviest sentence. Fortunately, the weapon is not loaded and the story does not cause any injuries.
A “recurring story”
The lawyer for the civil parties, the manager of the nightclub and the security guard, does not hide it: “every night, on a kind of individuals, in spades”, he adds. Alcoholic men ask to go into a club a few hours before closing time, the security guard refuses and conflicts break out. This time, one of the two defendants, throw a bottle of beer outright at the manager. They then leave at the wheel of a car, with his cousin, the other accused. They walk past the club a second time and in turn receive a bottle of beer.
A not very well-rehearsed story
From there, their story becomes hazy: “we didn’t think”the passenger explains. It is he who goes to look for a firearm, unloaded, hidden in a bush; he then points it at the security guard and the manager “just to impress them to scare them” he insists. All in the car driven by his cousin. The driver tells him that he did not get him into the car with the weapon, supported by his accomplice “nobody knew except me”. When the President asks him why he then returned to the club, he replies that he wants an explanation. He also says that he did not realize that his passenger was threatening the two men: “I was driving, I saw nothing”, he replies to the President, who wonders all the more that the night of the facts, he declares the opposite to the police. The Court also considers that he is guilty, and not only an accomplice, five months suspended prison sentence, his accomplice is sentenced to three months in prison.