The judicial treatment of the Saber attack affair, in a camp in Paris, by the alleged perpetrator of the Killer of rue d’Enghien in Paris, had been the subject of questions. Rémy Heitz brings clarifications and believes that “it is always difficult to reread the facts a posteriori”.
by Christophe Ayad
implicated in his treatment of the case of the saber attack of a migrant camp in December 2021 by William M., the alleged perpetrator at the Kurdish cultural center in rue d’Enghien Who left three dead, on December 23, 2022, the public prosecutor’s office wanted to explain his approach to the world. “It is always difficult to reread the facts a posteriori, but the processing of the file by the prosecution cannot lend the flank to an accusation of lightness or discriminatory bias,” said the Attorney General at the Paris Court of Appeal, Rémy Heitz.
On December 8, 2021, William M. attacked a tent camp occupied by migrants of foreign origin, mainly Sudanese, in Bercy park, in the 12 e arrondissement of Paris. He laced several tents and injured two people present, a 16 -year -old Sudanese minor and a 39 -year -old Ethiopian, injured on the back and thigh. Stopped by camp residents, William M. had been disarmed and neutralized.
When the police had arrived at the scene, she had found the attacker, William M., extended to the ground and bloody. Transported to Saint-Antoine hospital, he suffered from an orbital fracture and a cerebral hematoma, his condition preventing his hearing by the investigators for three days. Meanwhile, the migrants who participated in his grip of harm were arrested and placed in police custody. “At the time of the facts, there is great confusion. We do not yet know exactly what happened,” said Heitz in response to association activists who have moved to the placement in police custody of four migrant victims . “There was no bias in favor of William M.”, assures Mr. Heitz.
Choice of qualification
The investigation was entrusted to 2 e dpj, “which indicates the seriousness granted to this case,” notes the Attorney General. When he left the hospital on December 13, 2021, William M. was the subject of a mandate to bring. Presented to an investigating judge, he was indicted for “voluntary violence with a weapon having caused an ITT [total incapacity for work] of more than eight days”. The aggravating circumstance of the “racist” mobile was retained against him. On January 18, 2022, on an additional indictment of the prosecution, he was also indicted for “voluntary degradations” on the tents of the camp.
Several voices were surprised that the qualification of “attempted homicide” was not retained. “If the qualification evolves towards voluntary violence with a weapon, it is because nothing in the declarations of the assaulted migrants comes to accredit the will to kill,” replies the public prosecutor of the Republic.
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