Fractured forearm, severed thumb... A man convicted for the attack on a man in Cannes

Le Figaro Nice

The prosecution had requested three years in prison, the court was more lenient.

On Monday, a 19-year-old man was sentenced to 18 months in prison by the Grasse criminal court after the violent attack on an individual a few days earlier in Cannes,

learned on Friday, confirming information from

.

At the origin of the facts: a banal story of cigarettes... On February 3 at the end of the evening, the victim, aged around thirty and who suffers from a slight mental handicap, smoked outside his building when she is approached by the accused in search of a little tobacco.

Slightly drunk, the latter cannot stand the categorical refusal of the thirty-year-old.

The tone rises, followed by a fight and then blows.

Mad with rage, the attacker grabbed a wooden board with which he managed to break the unfortunate man's forearm.

In a barely believable movement, he then severed part of his thumb with a single bite, before calling for help himself.

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An uprooted and violent childhood

“The act is completely free

,” recognizes Assem Lassoued’s lawyer, Me Luc Girard.

Already convicted several times for more or less similar acts when he was a minor, this was not his first attempt.

argues his lawyer.

A young man who would have known nothing other than violence.

This is evidenced by his placement in police custody with his mother, a few days before the attack on the thirty-year-old.

,” explains Me Girard.

At the hearing, Assem Lassoued apologized to his victim who, although shocked and with his arm in a cast, had insisted on being present.

,” reports his counsel.

In addition to the prison sentence, the latter was ordered to compensate the thirty-year-old whose injuries led to a thirty-day ITT.