The Assize Court of Seine-Saint-Denis condemned, this Thursday, October 28, two young people and she acquitted seven others for the accidental death of one of theirs, during night brawls in Aulnay-sous-Bois in 2018.
The main defendant was sentenced to twelve years of criminal imprisonment and another, minor, was sentenced to five years in prison for willful violence resulting in death without intention of giving it, according to Agence France Presse. They were the only ones found guilty of having participated in the assembly in the city of Europe of Aulnay-sous-Bois which, in the confusion of the night, lynched a young person whom they thought to come from the city. neighbor and rival of the 3,000, when it was a friend of theirs. With a chest wound 20 centimeters deep, Dalil, 23, succumbed to his injuries two days later.
During the verdict, the president of the Assize Court expressed his dissatisfaction. Between “ten and twenty people” went after the victim, he recalled, but “the court and the jurors (…) not been able to pronounce sentences adapted to this serious matter “. Blame it on an investigation “very very incomplete”, according to him.