a septuagenarian placed under judicial supervision for having struck with a cutter and uttering racist insults

“Within a few centimeters, he could have hit the jugular or the carotid artery. My client thought he was going to die,” said the victim’s lawyer, Hosni Maati, on Monday.

A 75-year-old man who stabbed a gardener in the throat with a cutter who was working in Villecresnes (Val-de-Marne) on Friday, after uttering racist insults against him, was arrested and arrested on Monday 20 November, under judicial supervision, according to the Créteil public prosecutor’s office.

The offenses retained are “violence with use of a weapon” and “non-public insult due to origin, ethnicity, nation, race or religion”, specified the public prosecutor, confirming information from the site information StreetPress. “For my client, this is indeed an attempted homicide”, According to the victim’s lawyer, Hosni Maat.

“Freewheeling racism”

“Within a few centimeters, he could have hit the jugular or the carotid artery. My client thought he was going to die,” insisted Hosni Maati. The young father’s injury resulted in 15 days of ITT.

Jean-Luc Mélenchon, leader of LFI, condemned a “vile attempt at Arabophobic throat-slitting”, while the boss of the PS Olivier Faure mentioned a “freewheeling racism”. LFI deputies from Val-de-Marne were also outraged at X, with Rachel Keke calling for “fight racism”, while Louis Boyard, Mathilde Panot and Clémence Guetté described the attack as “racist”. The septuagenarian will have to appear in court on May 16, 2024, the prosecution said.