10 to 18 years of imprisonment for Angoulême supporters who raped and martyred one of their own

Three supporters of the Charente amateur club were convicted on Tuesday for acts committed between 2015 and 2017.

Three supporters of the Angoulême amateur football club, aged 24 to 40, were sentenced on Tuesday February 20 in Charente to sentences ranging from 10 to 18 years in prison for having martyred, assaulted and raped one of theirs. They were tried for rape, habitual violence and extortion of a vulnerable person, by the juvenile court, since at the time of the facts, committed between 2015 and 2017, one of them was under 18 years old.

The victim, a 52-year-old man, was declared disabled following this trauma. He was, like them, part of the “Commando Fada”, a former association of supporters of the Angoulême club then playing in the fifth division (National 3). “The court gave me back my dignity. It took a long time, but when I see the sentences, it’s fair”he reacted to the press.

The anti-Semitic nature of the violence not recognized as an aggravating circumstance

Two ex-members of the National Front were sentenced. The forty-year-old Yann Chabernaud was sentenced to the heaviest sentence, 18 years of imprisonment, in accordance with the requisitions of the attorney general. Jérôme Nouhaud, 30, was sentenced to fifteen years in prison. A third man, a minor at the time of the events, was sentenced to 10 years in prison.

They had notably assaulted the victim in a wood near Angoulême and had extorted his bank card to finance the activities of the group of supporters. The victim’s apartment had been sprayed with swastikas and anti-Semitic insults, but the anti-Semitic nature of the violence “was not recognized as an aggravating circumstance”which the lawyer regrets of the association Lawyers Without Borders,Aude Weill-Raynal, civil party to the trial. A fourth man, who was prosecuted for rape, was acquitted by the court.