The trial of a septuagenarian prosecuted for "
willful violence with weapon and racist insults
", after having driven in the car on a father of a family by calling him "
dirty bicot
" was postponed Friday May 28 by the court of Dole to June 22 next.
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The magistrate presiding over the hearing, seized in a composition with a single judge, considered this court "
incompetent
" because "
insults of a racial nature are judged in a collegial composition
". The case will therefore be examined on June 22 at 8.45 a.m. before the Lons-le-Saunier court. The victim's lawyers intend to demand that the facts be reclassified as “
attempted murder
”.
On April 21, a 72-year-old man was taking photos near a family's home. The parents, fearing that the individual would take pictures of their home, or even of their children, had then sought "to
obtain explanations
". A verbal and then physical altercation had followed, during which the septuagenarian had threatened the father with a cross key (for the wheel nuts) taken in his car, and had uttered racist insults against of his interlocutor, calling him a "
dirty bicot
", while the mother filmed the scene.
Got back in his car, the septuagenarian had moved away before turning around and rushing towards the father of the family who was on the sidewalk.
In order to avoid a shock, he had jumped on the hood of the vehicle, which had finished its race by tearing the fence of the home of his victim.
Aged 41, the father of the family underwent a forensic examination.
Suffering from several fractures, he was released from work incapacity for 30 days.
In police custody, the 72-year-old denied having photographed the victim's home or children, which was confirmed by analysis of his camera.
Unknown to the police, he was placed under judicial supervision with a ban on appearing near the home of his victim and a ban on driving a vehicle.