“In France, we do not do justice to ourselves”offended the public prosecutor of Roanne Abdelcrim Grini, Wednesday, October 26 on franceinfo, after the beating of the suspect of a sexual assault against a 6-year-old girl in the city. “The law of retaliation has nothing to do in our country. It is justice that must punish”declares the public prosecutor.
>> What we know about the Roanne case, where a father hit a teenager suspected of sexually assaulting his 6-year-old daughter
On the night of Thursday October 20 to Friday October 21, a mother found herself face to face with a young man leaving her daughter’s room who had just been touched. The following night, the father, aided by three friends, tracked down the suspect and beat him up. “kicking”of “punches” and has it “whipped with an electric cable while he was lying on the ground”says the prosecutor. “He had his body lacerated. The doctors gave him 10 days of ITT.”
“The rule of law is about letting justice do its jobinsists Abdelkrim Grini. In this case, justice has even worked very well since this 16-year-old young man was quickly arrested and then presented to an investigating magistrate who indicted him and placed him in pre-trial detention.
“Whatever the facts for which a person is suspected, I cannot tolerate that this one is beaten by the victim or his family. It is not my conception of the society in which I aspire to live .”
Abdelcrim Grini, public prosecutor of Roanneat franceinfo
The public prosecutor of Roanne takes the opportunity to remind the “Fundamental principle” of the presumption of innocence and insist that “the prosecution took its responsibility by requesting the provisional detention of this 16-year-old young man”. “It was normal for the young girl who suffered a very serious trauma and attack and her family to know that this young man could not hurt her again because he was incarcerated”adds the prosecutor.
“I can understand the anger of the fatherrecognizes all the same the public prosecutor. But I can’t accept that we behave in this way, even with the attacker of his daughter.” In parallel with the judicial investigation opened for aggravated sexual assault on a minor under the age of 15, the Roanne prosecutor’s office has also opened an investigation for “aggravated violence resulting in an ITT of more than eight days” and aggravated by the “meeting ” and the “use of a weapon”.
The father and his three friends will therefore soon be heard by the police on these facts. As for the teenager, he denies having sexually assaulted the girl.