Essonne: a forty-year-old sentenced to three years in prison for stabbing his friend in the throat. The two men, long-time friends, had a knife fight over a debt of 100 euros in 2018 in Corbeil-Essonnes.

The investigation was opened as attempted murder before being reclassified as violence with a weapon. “This blow could have been fatal,” recalls the lawyer. The attorney general had requested a harsher sentence of seven years.