The Court of Cassation rejected the appeal despite the defense attacks on how the investigation was conducted in 2016.
Le Monde with AFP
The use of two young men, now 23 years old, sentenced in the case of police officers burned by Viry-Châtillon in 2016 was rejected by the Court of Cassation Wednesday, March 23, making their convictions to ten -Hight years of imprisonment for attempted murder on these officials.
The highest French court, which examined the two for the 16th of February, considered in its decision that the “procedure is regular and the penalties were legally applied” by the Assize Court of the minors of Paris.
In April 2021, after six weeks of appeal on camera, the Assize Court of the minors of Paris had declared five of the thirteen accused – all under 18 years old at the time of the fact – guilty of attempt to attempt murder on police officers.
The Court judged the facts of October 8, 2016: sixteen people had attacked, some with Molotov cocktails, two police cars stationed near the Grand Borne district, a vast city of social habitat considered as one most sensitive in Ile-de-France.
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According to the judgment of the Court of Cassation made Wednesday, “when violence were held voluntarily and simultaneously, in a homicide intention, by several accused, during a single scene, the offense may be appreciated in Its together, without it being necessary to specify the nature of the violence exercised by each of the accused on each of the victims “. In addition, the Assize Court “has characterized the main dependents, resulting from the debates, which convinced him of the guilt” of one of the young men who had appealed in cassation, specifies the decision.
In parallel with this ultimate recourse, the Defense attacked how the investigation was conducted in 2016 by the Departmental Security Police of Essonne.
In July, a judicial information against X for “False in public writing”, “froquerry to judgment” and “voluntary violence”, all by “custodian person of the public authority” was opened in Créteil, after several complaints. Since then, expertise is underway: it aims to transcribe and analyze the records of guards in order to disclose the precise conditions.