The police crisscross the city of the Popes this Thursday morning, in order to carry out a criminal reconstruction.
On the spot, we can see in the distance, behind the important security device, the dean of the examining magistrates of the court of Avignon, Olivier Mathé. The latter will direct the operations within a few minutes. Thanks to the technical findings, the judge will put the various statements into perspective, in particular those of the shooter who refutes any participation in the “murder” of police officer Éric Masson. For this, the investigating judge is accompanied by the prosecutor of Avignon, but also by Maître Lemaire, the lawyer for the main indicted. The father of the killed policeman, himself a former policeman, takes part in the reconstruction. He is accompanied by the Nîmes criminal lawyer Philippe Expert. Finally, the medical examiner Mounir Benslima is also present with the ballistician Alain Artuso.
As a reminder, the main respondent is suspected of having killed Éric Masson, a police officer who was carrying out a check on a deal point in Avignon, on May 5, 2021. the individual was arrested four days later. the facts, at the Gard Remoulins toll while he was trying to reach Spain. The alleged shooter had come to ask for his release four months after his arrest in front of the Nîmes investigation chamber. ” I want to regain my freedom, a normal life. I want to be released to work with my father as a cabinet maker, or to do some training. I’ll work “then declared before the Court of Appeal this 20-year-old man.
Before the magistrates of the investigating chamber, he continued: I suffer in detention, I don’t see my mother. They make me look like a monster when I have nothing to do with this file. I respect the police, I am made to pass for what I am not when I did nothing”had to Iliass A. A position of innocence that the respondent has claimed since his arrest
A broken family
” Raising this request for release is indecent in view of the file. All devote in this procedure your responsibility. There are times when you have to be quiet.”, had provoked Master Philippe Expert, the lawyer for the parents of the killed policeman. He also defends the victim’s brother and sister. ” A family, honest people, respectful of institutions, who trust Justice, but a family bruised by your irresponsible behavior and your attitude while everything is overwhelming you”had completed the Nîmes penalist.
The Advocate General had rejected a possible release during the same request for release, stating in particular ” that there were serious and concordant indications” against the accused and that the latter had tried to flee abroad to escape justice.
Iliass A. is already known for six convictions in the juvenile court: the last date of September 2020 concerning acts of violence in meetings which occurred in Avignon in 2016 when he was 16 years old. He is also on file for several convictions related to drug trafficking. The criminal reconstruction has just started this Thursday, June 30 at 9:25 a.m.
Boris De la Cruz