The Meaux prosecution indicated that “the investigation did not include an objective element highlighting a discriminatory motivation, and in particular anti -Semitic” at this stage.
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Liyahou Haddad was to be buried in Israel on Thursday 1 September, almost fifteen days after his assassination, which occurred in France on August 19. The body of this 44-year-old man, of Jewish confession, was found buried in the field of his house in Longperrier, in Seine-et-Marne, two days later, his face “destroyed”, according to the lawyer for the family. The 24 -year -old suspect, Muslim, presented himself to the police station and confessed his crime.
His testimony allowed investigators from the Seine-et-Marne gendarmerie to find the body of the victim, physical and mental disabled, whose face carried many traces of ax and knife. Since then, the suspicions of an anti -Semitic murder “are going through part of the Jewish community,” says Yonathan Arfi, president of the Representative Council of Jewish Institutions in France (CRIF), who asks investigators that “all tracks be explored to This stage, including the possibility of the aggravating factor of anti -Semitism “.
The alleged murderer, Mohamed D., was indicted on August 23 for “voluntary homicide” and placed in pre -trial detention. According to M e Elie Korchia, lawyer for the Haddad family, a civil party, this young Tunisian justified his gesture by an attempt at sexual touching on the part of Mr. Haddad, against a background of alcoholization. A version that the victim’s family council judge fragile. Liyahou Haddad, married before settling alone in this small village in order to raise cats and other animals that he “adored”, suffered from big health problems, “he could no longer walk”, Tells his younger brother, Elior Haddad.
“anti -Semitic remarks”
In a press release dated August 30, the public prosecutor of Meaux, Hervé Tetier, indicated that the judicial information would be committed “to collect all the useful evidence to establish the exact circumstances of the facts”. He also specified that “if the investigation did not include an objective element highlighting a discriminatory motivation, and in particular anti -Semitic, any element allowing it to be established will give rise to requisitions from the prosecution tending to worsening the qualification adopted” . A response to the multiple voices that have risen to ask that the victim’s confession is not ignored among the mobiles having led to his brutal murder.
If it is certain that the two men knew each other, it is difficult at this stage to determine the exact nature of their relationship. According to the victim’s brother, the suspect carried out “regularly maintenance work” in the house of Seine-et-Marne of his elder. Elior Haddad says he crossed the alleged murderer once. He describes “a slightly bizarre guy” having immediately made him “anti -Semitic remarks”: “He told me about Israel, Palestine, Jews who killed the Arabs.”
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