three supporters will be tried in August for “aggravated violence”

They are prosecuted for “aggravated violence within a sports arena and extortion by violence of the shirt committed on Kenzo’s father”.

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Kenzo and his father Laurent, in Grosseto-Prugna (Corse-du-Sud), June 4, 2023. (PASCAL POCHARD-CASABIANCA / AFP)

Three AC Ajaccio supporters will be tried for “aggravated violence” at the end of August after the attack on little Kenzo and his family on the sidelines of the match between the Corsican club and Olympique de Marseille. “The three defendants, aged in their twenties, unknown to the courts (…), will be given a summons” Wednesday afternoon to be judged by the “Ajaccio correctional court on August 25 at 10:30 a.m.”said prosecutor Nicolas Septe in a press release published on Wednesday June 14.

They are prosecuted for “aggravated violence within a sports arena and extortion by violence of the shirt committed on Kenzo’s father”. The three defendants deny “having committed any violence against young Kenzo”one of the protagonists nevertheless admitting “than the tone used with regard to the father” And “their behaviour” could have “to impress and shock Kenzo and his brother”also explained the prosecutor.

Banned from stadium?

“The medical examinations carried out on the victims” nevertheless state “of proven traumatic impact and total incapacity for work (ITT) ranging from 1 to 2 days on Kenzo’s father, Kenzo, his brother and their mother”further specified the prosecutor, who asked “a placement under judicial supervision providing for a ban on attending a sports arena”.

The police custody of a fourth supporter, suspected for a time of having set fire to the OM jersey snatched from Kenzo’s father, was lifted on Tuesday “without it being possible to establish or even corroborate the fact that this shirt was actually burned, as was initially reported”added the magistrate.


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