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One Kevin is there, the other isn't.
It is a tragic coincidence,
"a curious fate"
, also underlined Me Gérard Baudoux, the lawyer for the civil party: the accused and the victim had the same first name and were only three years apart. .
Kévin Ribal would have been 27 today, Kévin R. is 30 and advanced on Monday in the box of the accused at the Assize Court of the Nice court for the first day of his trial.
On October 28, 2018, he stabbed Kévin Ribal, then 23 years old, when leaving a nightclub in Cannes.
He succumbed to two stab wounds.
Four years later, the suspect appears for murder, with Wasim B. (free) for
"complicity in murder and violence by a person in a state of intoxication"
and Abderrazek Z. (free but detained in another case) for
"abduction or destruction of a document or object relating to a crime to obstruct the manifestation of the truth”
.
On the benches of the civil party, the parents and the brother of Kévin Ribal.
The long reminder of the facts by President Catherine Bonnici, minute by minute, recalled the story of a banal trip to a nightclub in Cannes with friends.
Alcohol, music, outing in the early morning, the evening took place in a festive atmosphere.
Before an altercation that turned into a tragedy, without knowing the reasons.
The perforated and bloodstained white shirt of Kévin Ribal, at 4:21 a.m., testified to the two stab wounds received.
One of the two wounds measured 11 cm.
"Did you plant my friend?"
, had launched one of the young man's two friends at the main suspect, before hitting him with a glass bottle and receiving blows in turn.
The suspect admits the facts
During his first speech, Kévin R. once again admitted to having attacked Kévin Ribal that night, as during his hearings by the police.
“To hope for the forgiveness of the family, I assume the facts.
It's me, it's me, it's me!,
he launches into the court in a confused way
.
I'm disgusted with what I did."
The young man, living in the Moulins district (west of Nice), stopped there.
He gave no explanation for his action.
The psychiatrist's report and the personality investigation then focused all the attention on this first day of hearing.
And have made it possible to put forward a first hypothesis, which remains difficult to understand for the family of the victim.
Motive against Kévin Ribal, there was not.
"He had no aggression against me
," said the suspect, who had just crossed him twice without incident.
Kévin Ribal would have been the target of his impulse,
"in the wrong place, at the wrong time"
, as reported by the psychiatrist.
On the way back from this nightclub, at the Palais des Festivals in Cannes, Kévin R. followed him then passed him before jumping on him and arming his arm with a knife twice, and killing him.
During the evening, he allegedly had a verbal altercation with a tall mixed-race individual, but not with Kévin Ribal.
"I got a knife because I had the nerves, I was bragging"
,
Two weeks earlier, Kévin R. had gone to this same nightclub, "Le KA" which became "Le Bisou Bisou" and said he had
"been trampled in front of the box"
by a gang.
Reputed to be impulsive, restless and lonely since his release from prison in 2017 (He had just served a three-year sentence for ripping off necklaces and stealing handbags), the suspect was consumed by resentment and anguish this evening from October 28, 2018. Feelings increased tenfold by the effect of excessive consumption of vodka.
You kill someone and you don't try to understand.
Aren't you scared?
Catherine Bonnici, President of the Assize Court of the Alpes-Maritimes
If he described himself as
"nervous like everyone else"
, the people heard in the police investigation and then that of personality described a
"very agitated"
Kevin R. ,
"alcoholic and excited"
,
"hot"
,
“in a trance”
.
“The immaturity and impulsiveness”
noted by the expert translate the behavior of a character
“as violent as impulsive”
, for whom
“acting out is an outlet”
.
A young man with a chaotic background, without a father, dropping out of school, wandering in the working-class district of Les Moulins,
"but basically nice"
, wanted to insist - at the risk of shocking - a neighbor, the only witness of the day for the defense.
“
To assert his manhood, he took a knife and attacked the first person who was in his way,
reacted Me Baudoux
.
It was Kevin Ribal.
It could have been your sons
,” insisted the lawyer, staring at the jurors.
The psychiatrist stressed that he had allowed himself to be examined
"without reluctance"
, the defense provided by Me Christian Scolari and his daughter insisting on the cooperation of their client,
"with a capacity for self-criticism"
, debated in the face of his lack of 'empathy.
During his detention, the defendant had not consulted a psychologist.
“It worries
me,” he finally confessed after justifying himself for having written three times, without response.
"You kill someone and you don't try to understand
," said President Catherine Bonnici.
Aren't you scared?"
The verdict could be rendered as early as Thursday evening, the civil party hoping for a requalification as an assassination, still convinced of a history between the two boys during the evening and of a premeditation of the act.
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