Man mad at uncle: “Conversion to Islam had arisen” | Brussels
The origin of the family quarrel was the fact that the defendant had converted to Islam several years ago. Since that conversion his friends and acquaintances have been Nabil, but his uncle, with whom he lived, this and continued to call him Vincent -his name. The thirty-year-old had had enough of this and it came to a fight in which a lot of blows fell. The man said he stopped when he saw blood coming from his uncle’s mouth. “That’s right. I beat him but I didn’t want him dead. It remains my uncle,” the man after the incident. “I was also under the influence of cocaine.” In addition to his conversion to the defendant, his wife was also attacked for years.
According to the prosecutor’s office there really was talk of killing. “He only stopped hitting when he heard and the emergency services arrived,” the prosecutor’s office said. “The victim was about to suffocate from the blood in his keel. Five of ten minutes later and the man was dead.” The defense penalty for an autonomous probation. According to his lawyer, it was a case of assault and not attempted manslaughter.