Le Figaro Nice
“This is yet another example of the French sovereign failure”,
the mayor of Cannes, David Lisnard, annoyed on Twitter on Tuesday morning.
And for good reason, one of the two minors found guilty of the violent attack on an 89-year-old Cannes resident on August 29, escaped from the closed educational center (CEF) where he was staying, in Marseille, pending a decision. criminal.
In conditions that we do not know at this stage, the young man of 15 managed to escape the vigilance of the supervisors of the center, Sunday, at the end of the day.
A national wanted notice was launched against him on Monday, for the attention of the police.
The latter was finally apprehended without difficulty Tuesday morning, in Cannes, by agents of the national police, as confirmed by the
Figaro
the Departmental Security of the Alpes-Maritimes.
“
So, in reality, France is going …
”, was still exasperated David Lisnard on Twitter.
The city councilor, also president of the Association of Mayors of France, also regrets not having been informed by the State
“of such a situation”
.
He appeals to the Ministers of the Interior and of Justice to ask them for
“rigorous action, and that his detention be effectively applied, therefore controlled
”.
Read alsoOctogenarian assaulted in Cannes: two out of three minors found guilty and kept in a closed educational center
The abject and particularly violent aggression of Angèle Houin had moved and outraged the whole of France.
As she was returning home after doing some shopping, the octogenarian was hit from behind in the head by a gang of three 14-year-old minors.
This for the sole purpose of stealing her purse and a handful of euros.
Left unconscious on the ground, she had been transported to the emergency room in a serious condition.
The scene, filmed by the CCTV cameras of his residence, had provoked a wave of indignation from the entire political class.
Three months after the events, the three defendants appeared on December 1 before the Grasse children's court during a first guilt examination hearing behind closed doors.
Two had been found guilty of theft with violence and kept in a closed educational center (CEF) for the next six months, and the third, who was being prosecuted for complicity in theft with violence, had been released.
