The lawyers of two of the main accused asked for their acquittal and denounced the “intellectual dishonesty” of the accusation.
by soren seelow
“I feel a special avocado responsibility, because I know that at the end of my hands, my fingers, my words, there is the fate of a man, nothing less than the risk of A miscarriage of justice. This is what is heavier for the lawyer, what is heavier for the office of the judge that you embody. But if democracy can be under the constraint of The terrorist threat, the judges are not under duress. “
From his first words, M e William Bourdon had set the tone of the lawyers of the lawyers of the three main accused of the trial of the July 14, 2016 attack in Nice. All of his Defense colleagues, who pleaded Thursday, 8 and Friday December 9, called the Paris Special Assize Court to ensure that the immense tragedy of the Promenade des Anglais, its 86 dead, its Broken body and its impossible mourning, does not transform the accused into “expiatory victims” with the sole purpose “to appease hearts”.
Three days earlier, the prosecution had requested fifteen years in prison against Mohamed Ghraieb, Chokri Chafroud and Ramzi Arefa, tried for “association of terrorist criminals”. The delivery of a pistol to the terrorist by Ramzi Arefa not being disputed, he is the only one whose defense did not ask for the acquittal. The lawyers of Mohamed Ghraieb and Chokri Chafroud have forcefully pleaded the innocence of their client, castigating an “empty file” and the “intellectual dishonesty” of the accusation.
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On the form, the lawyers of Chokri Chafroud (Chloé Arnoux and Florian François-Jacquemin), Mohamed Ghraieb (Vincent Brengarth and William Bourdon) and Ramzi Arefa (Adélaïde Jacquin and Ferdinand de Vareilles-Sommières) offered a fan Varied styles: solemn, phlegmatic, methodical, ironic … Basically, they have all converged on the same elements of the file, striking them in turn to make the “vacuum” resonate.
It must be said that most of the charges weighing on the accused are based on the same beam of clues: the incriminating SMS sent by the terrorist before his death. These texts carry the two hypotheses which structured the investigation and haunted the debates: the three accused would have been “involved” in the search for the rental truck used by the killer on the evening of the facts, and they would form a dormant cell themselves ready to take action.
The most overwhelming text was sent by the killer to Ramzi Arefa six minutes before he launched his truck on the crowd, at 10:27 pm: “Salam Ramzi, I went to see you earlier At Taxiphone 16 Rue Marceau I didn’t find you. The pistol you gave me yesterday is very good, so we bring back 5 from your friend, 7, rue Miollis, 5 e floor. It’s for Chokri and his friends. They are ready for next month. They are at Walid [the nickname Mohamed Ghraieb]. “
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