Morad Akaouch, thirty-two years old, incurred perpetuity criminal imprisonment for this attack on 19 January 2018, six months of his detention release.
Le Monde with AFP
An inmate who had assaulted two guards from Borgo prison, the “Faces of the Republic” for the Prosecution, was sentenced on the night from Friday 19 to Saturday, November 20 by the foundation of Bastia at twenty years of criminal imprisonment.
The sentence, pronounced after a deliberate short four hours, “satisfied” the guards, according to their lawyers.
Morad Akaouch, thirty-two years, incurred perpetuity criminal imprisonment for this attack on 19 January 2018 at six months of his exit detention. He had wounded the two guards at multiple occasions at the cervical and clavicles, with a white weapon ever found.
The Court also imposed a socio-judicial follow-up for five years after the sentence, with three years in additional prison in case of non-compliance: “the violence of the act, the number of blows worn in the high area of the body, were selected, “said the president of the Court. The premeditation was also adopted against an accused who “tends to victimize, with an impulsive personality,” she pointed out.
There are ten days to appeal.
“The face of the Republic”
For Arnaud Viornerry, the Advocate General, who had required twenty-five years of criminal imprisonment, “we tried to kill with premeditation of the penitentiary supervisors”, that is to say, “the face of the Republic” , two men “who did not deserve what happened to them”.
The two guards had 11 and 13 wounds, each having “two deep wounds”, without a vital prognosis committed, had testified this week the medical examiner who had examined them.
Judging “The homicide intent” “obvious and patent”, Mr. Viornerry had, however, “totally dismissed the terrorist mobile”, simply recognizing “a religious connotation” in this act. After the facts, the detainee had shouted “Allahou Akbar!” Then draped a Palestinian flag.
This aggression took place a few days after the attack by a Djihadist detainee of three guards in Vendin-le-Vieil (Pas-de-Calais) who triggered a vast social movement of penitentiary agents to get more security.
“Destroyed and crushed”
“They are where the proofs? At six months of the end of his sentence, he took a piece of iron and assaulted supervisors in front of cameras. I call it a big bullshit. It’s not The premeditation “, had hammered M e Yassine Maharsi, one of the two lawyers of the accused, evoking an” irrational act, without calculation “and requesting” a free justice “, without mentioning .
M e Lola Dubois, his second council, had regretted a mess: “Nothing predestined him to be there. He dreamed of being football player. We know he will be condemned . But it is necessary to appreciate the circumstances that surround these facts. This isolation measure is in the process of killing it on a small fire. He is almost already dead, “she warned.
Morad Akaouch had explained his gesture by “an access to anger” linked to the “harassment of supervisors”. For his defense, “she destroyed it and crushed,” she decided, denouncing “the hypocrisy of supervisors” at the helm.
The three civilian party lawyers had asked for “a fair decision, to the measure of the suffering of the victims”, describing in Morad Akaouch “a monster Tapi which only requests to rise.”.
Last to express himself, out of his box on the orders of the president, Morad Akouch had once again presented “his apologies” to the guards, as he had already done on the first day of the trial: “I committed an act that is not normal. I do not recognize myself in it. I did not intend to harm their lives. I did not go to kill them, “he insisted.