The Advocate General on Thursday requested a three-year prison sentence, including two years suspended, before the Besançon Court of Appeal (Doubs) against a septuagenarian motorist accused of having violently hit a father family he had called a "
dirty bicot
".
The court will deliver its decision on November 18.
Found guilty at first instance of "
willful violence with a weapon and racist insults
", Bernard Demougeot, 72, was sentenced in July to five years' imprisonment, including two years suspended, by the Lons-le-Saunier criminal court. .
He had appealed.
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"
This file is a racist man who rushes at a man, North African, at best to hurt him, at worst to kill him
", pleaded Me Jérôme Pichoff, the victim's lawyer, Adil Sefrioui, 42 years old.
On April 21 in Dole (Jura), the Sefrioui couple are at home when they see a man who seems to be taking pictures of their children in the garden.
Suspicious, the couple seeks an explanation.
An altercation ensues.
Ms. Sefrioui films part of the chilling scene which she will then broadcast on social networks and which was viewed during the trial.
"
Dirty bicot approach
"
"
Approach dirty bicot, (...) take you in front of the car
", launches the retiree who then gets back into his car and seems to go away. But he turns around and rushes at Adil Sefrioui, thrown on the hood as the vehicle stops by smashing the fence of the family garden where the children are. "
If he is not dead, it is because he had the reflex to jump on the hood,
" said Me Pichoff. Adil Sefrioui says he is still haunted by the scene: "
the impact, boom, the cries of the little ones ... I flew in the car
". For the Advocate General, Emmanuel Vion, "
Mr. Sefrioui was wounded in his flesh, he suffered several fractures of the vertebrae and could have been paralyzed
".
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"" Dirty bicot "
is a word that only structural racists can use
", then estimated the magistrate, for whom "
Mr. Demougeot is in a dynamic of violence, in a detestable context
". The septuagenarian was not present at the hearing to explain his gesture. "
Bernard Demougeot, an elderly man, suffered insults, he was beaten, he felt attacked and prevented from leaving
", pleaded his lawyer, Me Damien Varlet, calling on the Court "
not to go on a crusade against the racism
”. The attorney general also requested a suspended fine against Adil Sefrioui for "
light violence
" during the altercation with the pensioner. His lawyer asked for the release.
