The young man’s lawyer pleaded before the jury the judicial error and appointed his culprit, Gérald Thomassin. The disappeared actor has nevertheless benefited from a place.
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Up to the last minutes of the last day, the trial of the murder of Catherine Burgod, postius in Montreal-la-Cluse, upset the Assize Court of Ain: Monday, April 4, at 10:10 pm jurors acquitted Mamadou Diallo from the “aggravated murder” of which he was accused, holding against him only the simple flight.
The sentencing – two years of imprisonment – does not even cover the four years of pre-trial detention already made by the young man. It seems to light years from the thirty years required by the Advocate General, Eric Mazaud. In the night, his family immediately organized a convoy to the penitentiary detention center, Mamadou Diallo being releasable immediately. This decision was made “for the benefit of the doubt,” said Marie Salord, the president.
In his argument, the defense counsel, Sylvie Noahovich, was not embarrassed to return to his client’s personality (“an adorable boy, everyone loves him”), or to disassemble actually The indictment, in other words how his DNA ended up at two places of the crime scene (“he has blood on him, we do not know how”). All this is swept in the name of an otherwise more terrible argument: the judicial error, become the haunting of the courts and public opinion in recent years.
“My good profile”
Approaching jurors, M e Noachovitch pointed out, slowly, one by one. “I am also Omar Raddad’s lawyer, one of the greatest judicial errors of this century. This would be the second.” She houses her effect. Looking for everyone’s eyes. Then pursuing, your heavy and vibrating, as one would take an imprecation: “Jurors like you did not have the courage to pronounce the acquittal. They recognize no longer having a quiet conscience. And you, will you dare to oppose to the magistrates? Will you come home with this weight? “In other words, condemning Mamadou Diallo is you condemn you too.
Just before the closing of the debates, the president had again interrogated the accused, trying to dispel a persistent gene despite a week of audience: but what dough is made this boy in a white shirt in the box? On the first day she had asked her to brush her life. His life ? It’s never the word he used. Said to him, “My profile”, or more willingly “my good profile”. In other words: 32 years old, ambulance, engaged at an official at the Ministry of Finance. A time, he had dreamed footballer, he made him believe in girls in the nightclub. He heals his outfits. “It comes from me,” said the mother, worker in the plastics valley of Haut-Bugey, when she testified. “I wanted the children to always be well dressed.” He loves the beautiful Bagnols too, he had to do an over-indebtedness plan after buying a BMW 1 Series on credit.
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