The Bobigny prosecution requested Tuesday, April 5, 18 years of criminal imprisonment against a man accused of having killed a young man, whose body was fished out of the Ourcq canal, by stripping him at the exit. of a techno festival in Paris in 2016.
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"
At 23, like at 33, you can't imagine that you're going to die after an evening in Paris
," said Advocate General Alice Dubernet, recounting the story of a "
tragic bad encounter
" at night .
Asking the Assize Court of Seine-Saint-Denis to "
put an end to a violent delinquent's journey which could only end badly, and protect society from this antisocial personality
", the magistrate also requested a permanent ban on the territory French for the accused, a 35-year-old Tunisian in an irregular situation.
Disappeared in December 2016
On the night of December 17 to 18, 2016, Maxime Rendu, a 23-year-old engineer, disappeared after leaving a music festival organized in a hall on the edge of the Parc de la Villette, in the 19th arrondissement of Paris.
Two months later, in February, his body was discovered not far from there, in the territory of the town of Pantin.
In a state of decomposition, the corpse is fished out of the Ourcq canal, under the tracks of the ring road.
The very night of his disappearance, the victim's bank card was swallowed by a local ATM, after three bad codes during attempts to withdraw 120 euros.
Recovered by investigators, the card ends up revealing the DNA of a man, Abdallah Miladi, known to justice under different aliases for multiple acts of violence in the La Villette district - his "
hunting ground
" for the lawyer for the victim's family, Me Dominique Laurier.
Questioned in the morning about the facts, the accused, shaved head and black quilted jacket, again denied the facts and delivered a confused version of that night in the Parc de la Villette: "
this guy, I have nothing to see, I didn't push
"into the canal, he argued aggressively.
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According to his story, moving and with many gray areas, he discovered the unconscious young man in a dark alley near the Cité des Sciences, walked with him to a bench on the Canal de l'Ourcq then went to withdraw money with the bank card at the request of its owner.
When he returned, the young man had disappeared.
“
No, that evening he didn't walk around like a Franciscan with his bottle of water to help drunk people in the Parc de la Villette!
“, mocked the general counsel.
The verdict is expected in the evening.
