Twenty years of imprisonment were required Thursday, February 16 against a man accused of having coldly shot in the parking lot of a Montpellier clinic the one who had killed his brother 26 years earlier.
The question of guilt "
is settled
", declared in his indictment the Advocate General Georges Gutierrez, on the last day of this trial which opened on Monday before the Assize Court of Hérault.
"Impaired Judgment"
Although he says he does not remember the facts in detail, the accused, Ahmed Bakiri, 51, admitted in fact while in police custody, and again in court, having shot several 357 bullets magnum the one who had been sentenced to 8 years in prison for having killed his brother in 1990, Mohamed Benameur.
That day, in March 2016, he also seriously injured the latter's brother, Lahcène Benameur, in front of the Saint-Jean clinic in Montpellier.
Like the psychiatric experts, the Advocate General holds that there was in this man without a criminal record and "
well integrated
", "
an alteration of discernment
" at the time of the facts, which implies that the jury can therefore reduce the sentence maximum incurred from 30 to 20 years of imprisonment.
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"
I ask you not to drop below 20 years
," added Georges Gutierrez, however, noting that Ahmed Bakiri, who apologized at the hearing, had still coldly finished Mohamed Benameur with a bullet. in the neck and "
left for dead
" his brother, who was shot in the abdomen.
The trigger for the hatred between these two families from Lodève (Hérault) was the theft in 1985 of the wallet of star host Guy Lux, passing through the city for his program “Intervilles
”
.
The accused would have buried this hatred for "a quarter of a century"
The owner of the restaurant where the larceny took place, Kader Bakiri, had taken the law into his own hands and had shot and wounded the one he considered to be the author of the theft, Mohamed Benameur, a neighbor.
Five years later, the two men met again and Mohamed Benameur dealt fatal blows to Kader Bakiri.
The death of his brother had strongly marked the young Ahmed, who according to the prosecution buried this hatred for "
a quarter of a century
", until it resurfaced dramatically when he met Mohamed Benameur in the parking lot of this clinic where the two families had a loved one hospitalized at the same time.
The verdict is expected at the end of the day.
