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After four days of facing each other in the Lyon Assize Court, Gabriel Versini and David Metaxas met on Monday on the other side of the Rhône.
The court has in fact tried in immediate appearance three defendants summoned for "rebellion and violence in meetings" against police officers responsible for the security of the Dorier trial at the 24 columns on Friday.
One of the officials had four teeth knocked out in the scuffle that broke out as they left the courtroom.
This Monday, the two lawyers underlined the serenity of the civil parties as well as the accused at the announcement of the assize verdict.
But they also described how the shrill cries of a relative of the defendants, as the public began to leave the room, woke up four days of tension and two and a half years of pain.
“
Vociferations, shrill cries which frightened everyone
”, told Me Versini who defended the police.
A few fractions of seconds where everything goes wrong
Several minutes of screams that challenged a 24-year-old young man present in the waiting room.
To the point that he wanted to enter the courtroom, going so far as to use force, and a kick towards the police who then notified him of the ban on entering the premises, in progress. 'evacuation.
In a few fractions of a second, the situation got out of hand.
Two other men, brothers aged 33 and 37, then tried to extricate this man from the arms of the police, who tackled him to the ground.
It was their little cousin, prone to epileptic seizures and whose state of health they say they were worried about.
The oldest brother, with a very imposing physique, is accused of having struck a policeman in the face, fracturing four of his teeth.
Injuries confirmed by a doctor who prescribed five days of ITT to the police officer.
The respondent categorically denied hitting the police.
The latter formally identified him, but were unable to say whether these blows were intentional or not.
Reprieve
David Metaxas underlined “
the will to go to the rescue
” on the part of his client, the little cousin.
And recognized that the three defendants had done it "
in the worst way
".
Even if the youngest brother's lawyer stressed his desire for appeasement, asking for his release.
Me Versini for his part evoked “
an insurrectional context
” in which “
the police did what they had to do
”.
The public prosecutor requested six months in prison against the oldest brother, accused of the punch, and six months suspended sentence for the other two.
The defendants' lawyers insisted on the profile of their clients, professionally inserted and with no criminal record.
The court finally sentenced them to five months in prison, suspended for the youngest.
The oldest, suspected of having hit a policeman, was released on the voluntary violence but sentenced for rebellion to eight months suspended.
The last who attempted to enter the courtroom received a nine-month suspended sentence.
All were ordered jointly and severally to reimburse the policeman whose teeth were knocked out.
Asked by Le
Figaro,
the lawyer for one of the defendants explained that he will not appeal.
The Dorier file not quite closed
An epilogue to the Dorier affair which “
we would have done well
without” according to the two lawyers, but which will perhaps not be the last act.
Indeed it is also these cries which would have pushed the brother of Axelle Dorier, Théo, out of his hinges;
the latter angrily exiting the room after insulting the woman who was behind it.
He admits having then struck a violent punch in a window of a passageway of the court, which he broke.
His lawyer, Me Versini, on the other hand, assures us that the young man firmly denies having made a Nazi salute, contrary to what certain testimonies from journalists and a bailiff report.
A gesture that the Figaro present on the spot did not note and for which an investigation was opened for provocation to racial hatred.
