the student “does not recognize being the conscious and lucid author of this drama”, affirms his lawyer

The 16-year-old high school student suspected of having fatally stabbed his Spanish teacher on Wednesday February 22 in his high school in Saint-Jean-de-Luz (Pyrénées-Atlantiques) “does not recognize being the conscious and lucid author of this drama”, says his lawyer. Thierry Sagardoytho, guest on Saturday February 25 on franceinfo, underlines that it is there “the whole question of this file”while the student was indicted the day before for “murder” and placed in pre-trial detention.

The lawyer reacted strongly to the remarks of the public prosecutor in Bayonne, held Thursday, February 23. Jérôme Bourrier said at a press conference that “the adolescent appears accessible to criminal liability subject to the expertise that must be ordered and a possible alteration of his discernment”.

“In a matter of this gravity, when one is not certain or when one does not know, one is silent!”

Me Thierry Sagardoytho

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“We are in a file in which the expert” initially requested “has ventured to say that in his opinion, there was no abolition, without consulting the previous psychiatric file, without considering the drugs that this kid was taking and without considering what he may have declared to the policemen”, continues the lawyer of the suspect. For Thierry Sagardoytho, “It’s really not serious”.

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However, the “young man” at the heart of the matter “has perceived signs of danger on his person through looks, through harmless things”explains his advice. “These are things that question and naturally, psychiatry will have to pay particular attention to them”, he adds. Me Thierry Sagardoytho would like to remind you that his client “speak in the third person”. “That’s not the usual way of describing things”he points out.