Toulouse: On the brink of death, a former offender breaks the omerta and testifies against his attacker
He ignored the law of silence that reigns in the Toulouse environment, a 28-year-old former delinquent testified during a criminal trial against the man who had stabbed him in the known for death Borderouge district .
He arrived at the courthouse on a scooter, making his way through a zebra crossing. justin
is a child from the Toulouse neighborhoods. He has long been bogged down in delinquency against a background of drug trafficking. At 28, this athletic boy, with a soft voice and a sad look, still doesn’t have a job. Not comfortable in the courtroom of the Toulouse Criminal Court, he almost slipped away on several occasions as his relationship with authority is complex. It took all the interpersonal skills of his lawyer Me Laurence Monnier-Saillol for him to agree to file a complaint and to come and testify this Thursday, September 29 to the ultra-violent attack of which he was the victim. No doubt inhabited by the diffuse feeling that we take him for a balance… He almost passed out.
In panic, he escapes from the emergency room
It was June 13, 2021, after a drunken evening in a small apartment on boulevard Netwiller in the Borderouge district. He had taken seven stab wounds from a 22-year-old boy whose nose he had blown off because he was “looking for everyone”. The scene of incredible violence had been filmed by the city cameras, his assailant, with a record as long as his arm, had attacked him in the back. The blade of the opinel had punctured his lung.
Supported by the emergency services, he had been transported in absolute emergency to the hospital. In a panic, Justin had fled from the intensive care unit, ripping out the tubes that were draining his lung. “My brother gave me a pair of slaps and took me back to the hospital. The doctor told me that within 10 minutes, I was dead. That’s what bothers me, I would have could have died like that without having accomplished anything good”, he blurted out to the judges. Psychological support is terrible but Justin refuses any form of follow-up. Physically it is also difficult. “After the assault, I had major digestive problems. In boxing or when I run, I don’t have the same breath at all. I tire more quickly. That’s how it is”, confides- he.
The prosecutor would have liked a trial at the assizes
The case could have been tried by assize court jurors. The investigating judge having chosen to correct him, the Toulouse prosecution had followed. “Personally, I would never have signed the final indictment. It’s a criminal case with premeditation. The defendant had taken a beating and wanted revenge. He waited more than an hour for the victim to come out of the apartment before swooping down on him”, storms the prosecutor Francis Boyer. Justin had accepted the magistrate’s decision without flinching, hoping that the case would be judged as soon as possible. History of turning the page and finally leaving Toulouse and its bad associations.
The name has been changed