The police officer who had knocked out a Bastia supporter during scuffles after a Ligue 1 match in Reims in 2016 was sentenced Friday, September 7 to two years in prison suspended.
This sentence, announced after almost 5 hours of deliberation, complies with the requisitions of the Advocate General, Matthieu Bourrette.
The defense pleaded acquittal.
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“
The disaster scenario would have been an acquittal
,” reacted the victim Maxime Beux.
“
The requisition has been followed.
Of which note (...) It will allow me to move on.
"
Not to condemn
" this former BAC, tried for having "
voluntarily committed violence
" would be "
quite simply illegal, but to condemn him too heavily would simply be iniquitous
", declared Mr. Bourrette in his requisitions.
He had asked the jurors to admit that the policeman “
has committed a crime, but, by the choice of the sanction, that he is not a criminal
”.
This trial, “
is not the questioning of the police.
Police bashing is an all too common collective game
,” he pointed out.
But it is not "
the trial of Corsican hooliganism
either ", he added, after police testimonies on "
the hostility
" of the group of ultras from Bastia to which Maxime Beux belonged, 22 years old at the time. .
"
Regrets
"
"Was he a liar, was he a leader, he remains a wounded man, a victim"
, underlined the prosecutor.
Hit as he fled, Maxime Beux was not dangerous
.
The 50-year-old policeman, now in service in a Reims police station and deprived of carrying a weapon, faced 15 years of criminal imprisonment.
At the helm, he rejected any idea of "willful violence"
, believing that he had acted proportionately and obeying orders.
“I did not want to destroy his life,” he said, reaffirming his “
regrets
” on Friday.
On February 13, 2016, after the match won by Bastia, the police officer used his telescopic baton against Maxime Beux in downtown Reims, resulting in the loss of his left eye.
The incident took place after a rise in tension between police and supporters.
Already the victim of a jet of smoke, the accused had set off in pursuit of the victim, who had just kicked his car, and had dealt him this blow.
Maxime Beux will be handcuffed, despite a bleeding wound, and placed in police custody.
His support by the emergency services will only intervene more than an hour later.
A major fault
,
described
as "
unbearable" by the Advocate General.
"
Initial Lie
"
In police custody, the policeman first claims that the young man was injured by falling on a pole, a version taken up for two years by the authorities.
The baton "
aimed for the shoulder
"
, assured the accused before the court.
It was inconceivable that it would end up in the eye, he further claimed.
"This file starts from an initial, shameless lie"
of a policeman
covered for too long by his hierarchy "
, and who
denies the evidence", pleaded the victim's lawyer, Me Benjamin Genuini.
“Everything he did is perfectly legal
, replied in defense Me Nicolas Brazy, asking for the acquittal
”.
“Was it necessary to use his telescopic baton? I said yes three times”
and the blow was
“not excessive”, affirmed this lawyer.
Since the start of the trial on Tuesday, police and supporters have blamed each other for the scuffles.
The former pointed to racist insults, anti-French and anti-police songs, and hateful tags scribbled in the toilets, including one proclaiming: “
We killed your prefect.
“For Maxime Beux, banned from the stadium twice in 2014 and 2017, the police “
wanted to become the Bastiais and harassed his group.
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