First leg, second leg.
In Essonne, the sad mechanics of brawls between gangs continues with a new appearance this Thursday at the Évry-Courcouronnes criminal court.
This time, it was a 19-year-old who was on trial for acts last December in Saint-Michel-sur-Orge.
Several brawls had taken place during this period; an 18-year-old had been shot and injured a month earlier.
The defendant was caught on the spot by the police who recognized him from the specific jogging pants with yellow stripes that he was wearing, with a stick in his hand.
A first-time offender and enrolled in BTS, he was sentenced to 105 hours of community service which, if not completed within 18 months, will result in six months in prison.
A stray bullet ended up in an apartment
This night of December 9 to 10, 2023 could have ended very badly without the rapid intervention of the police.
Around 11:30 p.m. around forty people gathered at the corner of rue Boieldieu and rue Lecoq in Saint-Michel-sur-Orge, in order to fight it out, armed with steel bars, sticks, sabers but also fire arms.
In the early morning, a couple living on the first floor of a neighboring building noticed an impact mark on their kitchen window, the bullet having ended up in their television.
Two Molotov cocktails were also thrown.
One of the protagonists was injured, but he refused to speak to the police.
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The young person judged this Thursday, resident of Évry, is not the author of this shooting.
He is not accused of violence but of participating in a gathering with a weapon, while hiding his face.
He denies the facts.
To hear him say he was there… by chance.
According to him, he was returning from a match at Corbeil-Essonnes.
A grown-up from his neighborhood had offered to take him back by car, but first by making a detour to Saint-Michel to pick up a friend.
Noticing a crowd and a fight, the defendant decides not to stay sheltered in the car or to flee, but to go out and see what is happening.
The police see him and his specific jogging suit on a handheld stick camera.
“The person on the camera is not me,” says the defendant.
“His explanations are not convincing,” says the prosecutor.
My explanation is that it's him in the video with his stick.
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