A shot fired "accidentally" under the effect of panic or a deliberate gesture?
This is what the Assize Court of Seine-et-Marne, in Melun, will have to determine, which judges Amadou K. for attempted murder, from this Monday, May 16 and for three days.
This 27-year-old resident of Émerainville appears for having – on December 1, 2018, in Torcy – seriously injured another young man with a firearm.
Hit in the chest, the victim had by chance survived, no vital organ having been affected by the projectile.
The accused – a work-study student in the banking sector at the time – faces life imprisonment.
It was on the night of November 30 to December 1, 2018, shortly after midnight, that a violent altercation broke out between two groups of people, in the Arche Guédon sector, in Torcy.
Alerted, the police officers of the Noisiel police station will discover - Allée des Commerces - an injured man, lying on the ground.
The young man, named Mehdi, suffers from a bleeding chest wound.
The warhead came out in the back.
Strongly alcoholic
About twenty young people, very angry, are on the spot.
They point out to the police the author of the shot, before attacking him physically.
Obliging the patrol and the police reinforcements to intervene, to protect him.
This is Amadou K., heavily alcoholic.
The two protagonists, injured, are transported to the hospital.
As for the handgun, it will never be found.
If the vital prognosis of Mehdi was engaged at first, the young man returns home in the afternoon.
For his part, after his treatment, the shooter is placed in police custody, where he will give his version to the investigators of the Judicial Police of Meaux.
He claims to have fired while closing his eyes
According to him, it was while leaving the Arche-Guédon grocery store that he had a verbal and physical altercation with several people, including Mehdi and his brother, over a dog story.
Amadou K. explains that he left the scene by car to retrieve a handgun from a cache in Émerainville.
He claims to have thought it was an alarm pistol.
According to him, he would have returned with a friend and there, under the effect of panic, he would have shot while closing his eyes, without aiming.
While specifying that nothing is clear in his mind, because of his massive alcoholic whiskey.
Not really the same version with Mehdi, who claims to have intervened in a conflict, to separate the parties involved.
He says he was deliberately targeted by the accused.
And according to him, no question of dogs in this case.
The court has three days to try to understand what happened that night.
Knowing that most of the witnesses disappeared when the police arrived.