After nearly 11 hours of deliberation, the Hérault Assize Court on Monday sentenced four men who were prosecuted for "forcible confinement followed by death" and "violence resulting in an ITT" of six weeks, " with use or threat of a weapon, in assembly, with premeditation ”.
After seven days of a trial under high tension, they receive sentences ranging from 25 to 30 years of criminal imprisonment, while requisitions of the attorney general ranged from 22 years to life imprisonment.
They are guilty of having resulted in the death, in terrible circumstances, of Sofiane Perrin, a 17-year-old high school student.
Hicham El Moutaouakil, 37, was sentenced to 30 years of criminal imprisonment, Anouar Taïbi, 28, the sponsor dealer of the punitive expedition, to 28 years of imprisonment, and Djamel Fellah, a henchman aged 37 years old, also at 28 years old.
"There is no justice, we are going to appeal," shouted the latter, who kept provoking incidents of hearing during the seven days of the trial.
These three men are in a state of legal recidivism.
Adame Reghi, a small 25-year-old dealer with a clean record, who explained that he wanted to "save his skin" by striking ultra-violent blows on the victim when he was himself suspected of theft of liquid at the home of the dealer, was sentenced to 25 years in prison.
75 hits with baseball, kicks, punches, gun barrels
On March 30, 2016, in a quiet area of Montpellier, the martyred body of Sofiane Perrin, a high school student described as "nice and endearing" by those around him, was discovered in blood: the emergency services could never revive the young boy, originally from a village in the Hérault.
At his side, his friend Edouard, 21, was found seriously injured.
In front of the Assize Court, he courageously described a night of ordeal suffered on the orders of Anouar Taïbi, a trafficker from the city of Minguettes, in Vénissieux (Rhône), and settled in another Hérault village.
Monday, the attorney general had described a "outburst of violence" which led to the death of this teenager after the theft of 15,000 euros at the home of the dealer.
After this theft, which has never been elucidated, the dealer instructed three henchmen to "terrorize" and "torture" three of his young clients, underlined the magistrate Jean-Marc Soriano.
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The first was injured and traumatized, the second, Edouard, seriously injured.
Sofiane, who was only a very occasional small user of cannabis not suspecting the dangerousness of some of his associates, succumbs to his injuries after having all night begged his tormentors to leave him alive and proclaimed his innocence.
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Their "relentlessness", with baseball bats, kicks, fists, rifle barrels, led to the death of Sofiane who received 75 ultra-violent blows, including 25 to the head, on a field. wave near Capestang (Hérault), recalled the magistrate.
A brother of the dealer was also sentenced to two years' imprisonment for failing to assist a person in danger: when he saw him very badly in the early hours of the morning, Sofiane could still have been saved by medical treatment according to the report. forensic scientist.
But Sofiane's body will be "thrown" from a car in the morning, 250 m from a Montpellier clinic, when it was already too late to save the young boy.
At the end of the verdict, pronounced under high police protection, the family of the victim had to be evacuated by the police outside the court, under the cries and threats of the family of the dealer.