William Malet is on trial before the Paris Court of Appeal on Tuesday for violence with a weapon in 2016 in Livry-Gargan. He also admitted to being the author of the fatal shooting rue d’Enghien in Paris last December.
William Malet, indicted and imprisoned for the murder of three Kurds on December 23, 2022 in the rue d’Enghien in Paris, is retried on Tuesday March 22 by the Paris Court of Appeal for having stabbed three squatters at his home in 2016 in Livry-Gargan, near Paris.
An assumed racism
Framed by two gendarmes, gray hair almost shaggy, chin forward, unshaven, this 69-year-old man appears before the Court of Appeal with a certain overweight. He wears a tired beige sweater. William Malet stands tall when his personality is evoked and assumes to be racist, far right, solitary and rigid. “In 2016, I wanted to convert to Judaism”he recalls. Because I like the State of Israel, they don’t let themselves be done against Muslims”. He develops his thoughts a little later at the hearing. “Me, what I want is France for the French.” Since he says he rubbed shoulders with ex-officers who served during the Algerian war, William Malet explains that he is convinced that “‘we must be wary of non-Europeans, of traitors.” About there fatal shooting in December, William Malet assures: “I think I wanted to kill myself. Then I told myself that killing Arabs would take away my desire for suicide. I knewhe says, that by doing that, it would make noise in the newspaper”. “A bit like the Islamist killers in short”, raises the president. William Malet does not contradict her.
An arsenal discovered in his house
In 2016, the three squatters he seriously injured were precisely all three of North African origin. They explained that they settled in the dilapidated basement of his pavilion thinking that the places “very dusty”, according to investigators, were abandoned. This basement had never been repaired since the 1999 storm. William Malet explains that he acted in self-defense. A scenario that does not seem to convince the court. He very seriously injured these three men with bladed weapons. “When I discovered them, even though they were unarmed, he said, I felt in danger. They didn’t threaten me concedes William Malet. But they could have sliced me up, kidnapped me, killed me, as we see in the press all the attacks by Islamists.
That night in February 2016, when the police finally arrested the sixty-year-old, former TGV driver, the three squatters were in the street, on the ground, bleeding. He had an M16 assault rifle in his hand. Four safes, more than 21 rifles or handguns were found at his home, as well as hundreds of ammunition. None was declared and William Malet never understood why the justice system had prosecuted him and then sentenced him in the first instance to one year in prison, just like the squatters. This tipping point would have increased his hatred of foreigners tenfold.