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Murder of Kévin Ribal in front of a nightclub in Cannes: the accused sentenced to 30 years in prison

2023-02-10T14:45:15.307Z


HEARING REPORT - After a week of trial at the Assize Court of Nice, Kévin R. received the maximum sentence for killing Kévin Ribal with two stab wounds on the night of October 28, 2018.


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Four years after the events and after a week of trial at the Assize Court of Nice, the verdict that fell this Friday at the start of the afternoon will not bring Kévin Ribal back to life but will put Kévin R behind bars. For having stabbed the victim on the night of October 28, 2018 at the exit of a Cannes nightclub, the latter was sentenced to 30 years in prison for murder, the maximum sentence.

Wasim Z., who had punched him and knocked down Kévin Ribal before attacking his friend, Anthony M., was sentenced to 15 years in prison.

His complicity was reclassified as co-action, making him also guilty of the murder.

Finally, Abderrazek Z., who appeared for having concealed the knife, inherited a three-year prison sentence.

Friday morning, for the last day of the hearing, Kévin R. approached the microphone in the defendants' box and had to take it several times.

We couldn't hear it.

His lawyer, Me Christian Scolari, handed him the microphone from his desk, in vain.

The one who, since Monday had kept his head down, spoke last.

Forced to raise your voice and repeat yourself.

"I ask forgiveness.

It's my fault, I'm the only one responsible

, ”he explained.

Opposite, the parents of Kévin Ribal remained stoic.

Forgiveness, they had given up accepting it.

But they are satisfied with the sentences pronounced:

“We were rewarded because we must not forget that we lost our son for no reason.

Justice has done its job well”

, was moved Franck Ribal, the father.

"I am partially satisfied"

, nuanced Joëlle Ribal, the mother, annoyed to have to leave the audience

"like rats, with fear"

by an additional exit.

The room was full again on Friday, the affair having aroused great emotion on the Côte d'Azur.

Because on this evening of October 28, 2018, Kévin Ribal had been stabbed twice at the exit of a nightclub in Cannes.

At the end of the trial, the victim's family has still not obtained the motive for the tragedy on the part of the murderer, if not that of an impulsive act or revenge after a personal humiliation two weeks earlier in this same establishment.

In his last words, Kévin R. returned to the CCTV images.

The man, now 30 years old and already convicted of robbery, explained that he did not brandish the knife and that he preferred to return it after the fact.

“When Anthony M. hits me with a bottle, I don't throw punches.

I leave.

I was in the misunderstanding, I said to myself “what did you do”

.

Insufficient to reduce the sentence to 20 years, as claimed by his lawyer.

"I wonder if there isn't a message: they give us the maximum and they tell me 'go and have yourself judged elsewhere, because here we can't.'

I understand this verdict like that, we trampled on the defense”

, was offended Me Christian Scolari.

A remand on appeal does

Source: lefigaro

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