Two-and-a-half firm prison sentences have been required Friday compared to eight of the ten defendants suspected of participating in the very violent aggression of a police officer in front of his home, on the night of June 14, 2020, in Lyon .
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The Correctional Court of Lyon has again been confronted with a sucker scene, Friday, November 5, in the trial of ten defendants aged 20 to 30, suspected of having assaulted a police officer in front of his home. June 2020. The Prosecutor’s Office required three and a half years of imprisonment, of which one year of probationary stay, compared to eight of the ten defendants, for violence aggravated by three circumstances: in a meeting, with weapon, and on a custodian agent public authority. For two of them, the Prosecutor required the relaxation, believing that their participation was insufficiently characterized. For the other eight, Sophie Taupin asked to apply the notion of “single scene of violence”, to incriminate and condemn the protagonists, without necessarily detailing each other.
At the hearing, who lasted up to 1 morning, the young people all recognized their presence at the scene, which showed images of video surveillance and telephone farms, but none admitted the Lighter contact with the policeman with multiple shots, let alone the knowledge of its function. “Nobody was banging, no one knew he was a policeman, everyone admits that he was there, and no one hit the prosecutor.
The facts took place in two stages, Boulevard Yves-Farge, in the e district of Lyon. By the time he racks his car in front of his home, the police officer is close by a car that goes at full speed, turns and stops with a hand brake. The driver comes out and trafficked “dirty cop”, according to the officer’s story. Ensues an altercation. The policeman takes over. The two occupants leave by car and will prevent a group of young people, in a square. This group of a dozen individuals rushes on the police officer, whose companion has just the time to shelter in the lobby of his building.
According to his story, the police officer receives some forty blows on the body. He is struck when he falls on the ground, probably with the use of a metal bar, which caused him a triple fracture of the ankle and forty-five days of total incapacity for work. “I thought they would kill him, we felt hatred,” said a witness, who saw the scene of his window. Another confirms the impression of without limit.
“When I saw the police officer, I did not know it was a policeman”
At the hearing, young people all hold the same version. “Without thinking, I went there,” says one. “When I saw the police officer, I did not know it was a policeman,” says another, awkwardly. “A denial that confines cowardice”, pleading Laurent Bohé, the police officer’s lawyer, who draws up a parallel between this case and other recent cases of police followed by attackers.
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