6, 10 and 14 months in prison for the three men in pre-trial detention, 6 months in prison suspended for the other two. This is the judgment of the correctional chamber of the Brest judicial court on Friday evening, five weeks after the police operation in Pontanézen which resulted in the arrest of 8 young people, refugees in the apartment of a woman and her two children. Three minors aged 15 and 16 are being prosecuted for the same facts.
Of the four charges, the judges only retained the sequestration, apart from the violence ultimately attributed to a single defendant. A rather logical decision for Me Pierre Tracol, one of the defense lawyers.
The tenant of the apartment “agreed”
At the bar, the defendants took care to say as little as possible. Obviously in solidarity, defying the institution with a certain contempt, they minimized the facts. “She is a friend of ours, we had already come to her house several times”, assures one of them. “She agreed, we never forced her”confirms another. “No one threatened or prevented her from going out”, said a third. The defense rushes into the breach, denouncing “a badly put together file”. Because the investigators have hardly dug the links “unclear” between the young people and the 23-year-old mother, absent at the hearing. The five lawyers pleaded for release. Their clients have all been released from the acts of home invasion and damage.
Requisitions from 6 to 12 months firm
Mainly based on the testimony of the victim “terrorized”the public prosecutor, Camille Miansoni, estimated that if there was “big guys and followers, they all participated”. The head of the prosecution has asked for sentences between 6 and 12 months in prison. An indictment hailed by Nazim Yénier, the founder of the Shepherds of the neighborhood, a collective that fights against incivility. Coming as a spectator, he was shocked by the insolence of the defendants.
Justice must be much more severe towards this kind of individuals
Supported in court by twenty young people from the neighborhood, the defendants have ten days to appeal.