The Indre-et-Loire Assize Court on Thursday sentenced to ten years' imprisonment two brothers who had killed a 43-year-old man for a parking space in a shopping center near Tours in September 2018. The two accused were also sentenced to a five-year stay ban in the department of Indre-et-Loire.
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Advocate General Delphine Amacher had requested 13 years in prison against Abdoul and Mohamed Diawara, for willful violence resulting in death without intention of giving it, as well as a stay ban for 10 years in Indre-et -Loire. According to the magistrate, this trial was not
"that of absurdity"
but
"that of violence".
On September 15, 2018, Ali Unlü, a bus driver, was beaten to death in the parking lot of the Atlantes shopping center, in Saint-Pierre-des-Corps, in front of his wife and three children. The Diawara brothers had quarreled with Ali Unlü for a parking space. The fight quickly escalated and they struck several extremely violent blows on Ali Unlü, who died of his injuries less than 48 hours later.
“There is no voluntary gesture in this death which is unfortunately given. It's like that, it's the principle of a fight! "
, pleaded Me Frank Berton, lawyer Abdoul.
“It was a fight, yes!
A lynching, no!
They are perpetrators of violence, but not killers, ”
insisted Romain Profit, also defender of Abdoul, the youngest of the brothers, who allegedly dealt the fatal blow.
"This sentence, compared to the intentions, compared to what was done, if I do not take into account the consequences, seems to me too important"
, declared Christian Blazy, the lawyer of Mohamed Diawara, who did not not excluded from appealing.
