On December 8, 2021, William M. had attacked a migrant camp in Bercy park in Paris. The police and the prosecution seem to have underestimated the danger of the aggressor, released on parole on December 12, 2022.
by Christophe Ayad
A year before the killing of rue d’Enghien, William M. had already committed a serious assault against people of foreign origin in Paris. Indicted for these facts, he had been placed in pre -trial detention. He was released on conditional release on December 12, at the end of the legal period of one year of pre -trial detention for the facts referred to. His release had been accompanied by a judicial control prohibiting him from holding weapons and obliging him to psychiatric care.
On December 8, 2021, William M. approached a migrant camp early in the morning in Bercy park, in the 12 e arrondissement, by pretending to be a jogger. He then drew a saber by screaming: “death to migrants” and started to cut into pieces the tents in which families were sleeping. He attacked a man urinating, injuring him on the back and hip. Then he wrapped a minor, before being surrounded and put out of harm in three other occupants of the camp who had served as a tree branch to hit him. William M. was slightly injured in the fight.
The police, called on the scene, had arrested all the people involved in violence, including the victims. Even more surprising, four of the five attacked people, except the minor, had been placed in police custody for forty-eight hours. “After their police custody, they told us that they had no care or have had access to a translator. Apparently, we didn’t even question them,” said Cloé Chastel, the former reception manager Day of the Aurore association, which intervened on the camp. 2>
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While the police ask to collect testimonies of the assault to the residents of the camp, she omits to question the custody in police custody and, on the contrary, transmits a file to the prosecution, who decides to refer them to a judge of ‘Instruction for “violence in organized gang”. Thanks to the work of the lawyers committed of automatic and the responsiveness of the associations, the judge understands a little better the situation and decides to release the victims, who are however placed under the status of assisted witnesses.
That’s not all: during police custody, the police, noting that one of the attacked people, a Moroccan national, had no residence permit, they alerted the prefecture, which Delivered against him an obligation to leave French territory (OQTF). The document even specified that the interested party had engaged in “voluntary violence with a weapon and in a meeting”, while he defended himself with a branch against a man seeking to kill him with a saber. The OQTF refused to question any “voluntary departure period”.
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