two young people definitively sentenced to 18 years in prison

Nearly six years after the attack on the police of Viry-Châtillon (Essonne), two young men who had appealed to the Court of Cassation were definitively sentenced, Wednesday, March 23, to 18 years in prison for attempted murder of these officials. Now aged 23, one was a minor and the other was 18 at the time of the incident.

The Court of Cassation judged the facts of October 8, 2016: 16 people had attacked in broad daylight two police cars parked near the Grande Borne district, in Viry-Châtillon, a vast social housing estate considered to be one of the most sensitive in Île-de-France.

In April 2021, after a six-week appeal trial behind closed doors, the Paris Juvenile Assize Court found five of the thirteen defendants guilty of attempted murder of police officers. Of the four officers, a 28-year-old security assistant and a 39-year-old peacekeeper had caught fire. No member of the security forces had died in this attack, while theThe vital prognosis of the first had been engaged for a time.

The highest French court, which examined the two appeals on February 16, considers in its decision handed down on Wednesday that the “procedure is regular and the penalties have been legally applied” by the assize court for minors in Paris. According to the Court’s judgment, “when violence has been deliberately and simultaneously exercised, with homicidal intent, by several defendants, during a single scene, the offense can be assessed as a whole, without it being necessary to specify the nature of the violence exercised by each of the defendants on each of the victims”.