The pronouncement of the judgment creates an explosion among relatives of Ilyass, 19, sentenced this Monday to two years in prison, one of which closes by the criminal court of Evry.
Some scream their sadness.
The father stares at the president, haggard.
Then he kneels down, face down.
Her son is going to prison, a warrant of committal has been issued.
Ilyass, with a clean record, stabbed another 21-year-old young man in the back on Thursday, February 25, during a brawl between gangs opposing the districts of Bois Sauvage and Champtier-du-Coq.
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This case illustrates "the logic of a neighborhood where one seeks to do battle with those who are not on their side", sums up the prosecutor, recalling "the sadly dramatic news of recent days".
Two teenagers were killed last week with knives.
Lilibelle, a schoolgirl, Monday February 22 in Saint-Chéron, and Toumani, the next day, during a fight between gangs in Boussy-Saint-Antoine.
They were 14 years old.
"I felt surrounded"
In the box, this Monday, Ilyass speaks in a calm and clinical tone, to tell why he stabbed another young man he did not know.
“I was told my sister had been hit.
I went to the Champtier-du-Coq district to have some explanations, they did not like it ”, relates the young inhabitant of Bois Sauvage.
Shortly after, a group of young people from Champtier-du-Coq went into contact with their rivals, at the “Lycée Parc des Loges” bus stop.
“These people only came for me.
One of them hit me.
I felt surrounded.
I didn't take out the knife right away… And the blow went off on its own.
"
He hit a 21-year-old young man in the back, injured in the lower back.
The victim, who was released from the hospital, was prescribed 21 days of total incapacity for work.
“I didn't mean to hurt him, just scare him,” Ilyass swears.
The scene was filmed by a surveillance camera.
At the sight of the images, diffused on the computer of the clerk in the courtroom, the prosecutor scans the version of the defensive blow supported by the defendant.
“The video shows someone out of control.
At 3:28 p.m., he took out his knife.
He walks forward, turns around.
Then he runs and strikes up and down, seeking to plant in revenge.
"
"Do you realize that you could have killed?"
A logic of revenge that she translates as follows: "You did something to my sister, I'm going to take justice into my own hands."
“Despite Ilyass' clean record, she is asking for two years in prison, one of which is closed.
"Do you realize you could have killed?"
That by walking around with a knife, you put yourself in the situation of using it?
», Sermons the president of the tribunal.
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"At the time no ... But after, yes", sighs the young man.
Nothing in his life course predestined him to commit such serious facts: a good student, holder of a scientific baccalaureate, involved in the associative environment.
"If you send him to Fleury
(Editor's note: the remand center)
, in what state will he come out?
It would be pointless!
», Pleads his lawyer.
Ilyass's last words go to the victim.
"I hope he will recover," he slips.
A repentance which does not convince Me Aurélien Bonanni, the lawyer of the young man stabbed.
"I have the impression that he did not realize that he could have taken his life ..."