After five days of a dense and sometimes tense trial, the jurors of the Hauts-de-Seine Assize Court withdrew at the end of the day, this Friday, to decide the fate of Moussa D., tried for the murder de Bilel B .. The victim is this young man killed at the age of 26 by a bullet in the back of his neck, place Le-Vau, in Asnières-sur-Seine, on September 20, 2017.
The deliberation promises to be long as the theses developed by the prosecution and the defense are opposed.
The lawyer general, Céline Martini, required fifteen years of imprisonment for this "execution", when Me Yassine Bouzrou, counsel for Moussa D., asks for acquittal.
"The incomplete investigation feeds a huge doubt," he said.
In a long argued plea, the criminal lawyer demonstrated incomplete investigations.
The police would have conducted "a low-end investigation because it is a settlement of city scores", he is indignant.
“An investigation started on a rumor, the Moussa rumor, and that was enough.
Would we see that in a bourgeois city? "
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“The rumor was the starting point of this difficult investigation because in these districts, one does not speak, one does not balance especially not and the bond of trust with the police force is not simple.
So the rumor, yes.
But investigators dug and unrolled the coil.
Everything was oriented towards Moussa D. ”, maintains the general counsel.
This September 20, his phone is well on Place Le-Vau.
“He turns it off at 3:49 pm, recalls the general counsel.
Two hours later, Bilel B. died, between two cars. ”
From the evening of the events, the first name Moussa reached the ears of investigators as that of the shooter.
A local resident saw “a tall African in a white T-shirt pointing his gun, arm outstretched, as if in a firing position.
On the photo of Moussa D. presented by the police, she said that it could correspond.
Another anonymous witness saw a man named Moussa running past.
He heard
Go ahead, get out, Moussa.
"
The result of a previous assault?
“Ah, the anonymous witness.
During his first hearing, he said he had heard no first name.
Then he quotes Moussa! ”
Me Bouzrou gets angry for whom this man, of whom nothing is known and who gave a confused testimony Wednesday by videoconference, "said anything": "And he quotes the words of other people.
It is held as evidence against my client and we do not even try to find out who these people are!
There, it is hearsay to an anonymous witness. "
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Many other witnesses should have been questioned, according to the lawyer, who numbered eight.
Among them, the companion and the son of a woman, whose phone exchanged 58 messages with that of Bilel B. on the morning of the crime.
“Perhaps we would then have found another motive than the aggression at the end of July,” says Yassine Bouzrou.
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This attack at the end of July, the Advocate General is "convinced that it led to a tragic outcome".
Bilel B. had been violently assaulted on Place Le-Vau by at least ten people, fifty according to some witnesses: “He was very marked, humiliated, in addition the video of the assault turned on social networks. "
Between 8 and 18 months required against the other two accused
This is why the young man would have returned a few weeks later to wash away the affront, armed, hooded, helmeted.
And he shot at a group of young people gathered near a pole in the square.
"I do not know who Bilel B. was aiming for, if it was a warning shot," concedes Céline Martini.
But what is certain, "is that he was executed a few seconds later".
After the crime, Moussa disappeared from circulation.
"How urgent is it to leave Asnières on the very evening of the incident to go to Le Havre and return three weeks later to a hideout apartment in Gennevilliers, where they brought him his meals and cigarettes?"
asks the general counsel.
Me Yassine Bouzrou, lawyer of Moussa D. accused of the murder, and his collaborator Anna Branellec, demanded the acquittal of their client.
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"His sister lived in Le Havre, there were friends," sweeps Me Bouzrou, whose client would "not be stupid enough" to book plane tickets in his name if he was on the run.
Moussa D. was arrested in Orly, four months after the murder, while he was going to embark for Senegal.
Two of Moussa D.'s friends also appeared before the Assize Court for having "helped him in his escape".
The Advocate General required between eight and eighteen months in prison.
