Two defendants who do not appear at the hearing and a third present but suffering from amnesia: the task of the judges of the Senlis criminal court did not look easy, this Monday afternoon, to see more clearly in a case aggravated violence.
Especially when the victim did not find the strength to come and testify at the hearing, undoubtedly too marked by the violence of the attack suffered on June 13, 2020, in Creil.
That evening, with friends, the young man was one of the guests at a small party in an apartment on Allée Bellevue.
A place where drunken and noisy evenings are frequent and put the nerves of the neighbors to the test.
Around 3 a.m., several of them came to ask the revelers to make less noise and the words exchanged with one of the neighbors were undoubtedly a little sharp.
She threatens to call on her sons, who soon arrive on the scene.
Three open wounds on the back
While the guests of the evening are leaving, they come across the two brothers, Adel and Bilal B., in front of the building, accompanied by their friend, Bilal E. Two young revelers manage to escape but one of them They, who left the apartment last, cannot escape the fury of the three young people.
He was beaten and kicked, which cost him a bruise and a tooth, a bottle was broken on his head and he was found with at least three open wounds on his back, probably corresponding to as many blows. knife.
“Afterwards, he was really scared”
It was a neighbor who intervened and removed the attackers, before calling for help.
The young man gets away with ten days of ITT.
“I tried to persuade him to come but at the last moment, he didn’t have the strength,” says the victim’s lawyer, Me Laurent Le Méhaute.
Afterward, he was really scared.
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After initially denying the facts, the brothers Adel and Bilal B., arrested the next day, ended up recognizing them in part.
“He had spoken badly to our mother,” they justified during their hearings, before no longer respecting their obligations of judicial control and not coming to the hearing.
“A real surge of violence”
The only one present, their friend Bilal E. cites psychiatric problems to explain that he remembers “nothing” about this evening.
At most, he admitted while in police custody that he had kicked the victim a few times, and that his friends, the B. brothers, were very angry.
“Normal, if we had spoken badly to their mother,” he says at the stand, before backpedaling and admitting “that the reaction was disproportionate”.
“A real surge of violence,” summarizes the deputy prosecutor, “with three individuals who attack a person with a weapon.
Some witnesses explain that Bilal B. would have killed the victim if he had not been arrested.
» The court sentenced Bilal B. to 18 months in prison, his brother Adel B. to 20 months in prison.
Their friend Bilal E. gets 18 months, eight months of which are suspended on probation.
The eight-month fixed part will be served by wearing an electronic bracelet.