The images, of great violence, will find an echo in court a little later than expected.
The trial of a septuagenarian implicated in a racist attack that occurred last April in Dole (Jura) will finally be held on June 22.
The single judge who presided over the hearing this Friday indeed considered that the racist insults cannot be judged by a single magistrate.
The trial for "willful violence with weapons and racist insults" was to judge this Friday the man who had driven in the car on a father, Adil Sefrioui, by treating him "dirty bicot".
Only, the magistrate presiding over the hearing considered this court “incompetent” because “insults of a racial nature are judged in a collegial composition”.
The case will therefore be examined on June 22 at 8.45 a.m. before the Lons-le-Saunier court.
The victim's lawyers intend to demand that the facts be reclassified as “attempted murder”.
Several fractures for the father
On April 21, a 72-year-old man was taking photos near a family's home.
The parents, fearing that the individual would take pictures of their home, or even of their children, had then sought "to obtain explanations".
A verbal then physical altercation followed.
"What saves Adil Sefrioui is that everything was filmed because everything was contested by the defendant," remarked on Friday on BFMTV the victim's lawyer, Master Randall Schwerdorffer.
"Fortunately everything was filmed," he adds, deploring "proven racist behavior" committed in the presence of the four children, aged 7 to 12, of the father.
Racist aggression in Dole: according to his lawyer, "what saves Adil Sefrioui is that everything was filmed because everything was contested by the defendant" pic.twitter.com/fN7x8n45Gm
- BFMTV (@BFMTV) May 28, 2021
"A person was almost killed because obviously, too, she was Arab", indignant on the same channel Dominique Sopo, the president of SOS Racisme, who regrets that justice "corrects the case with a qualification of less gravity ".
The septuagenarian had threatened the father of the family with a cross key, intended for the wheel nuts, taken in his car.
He had uttered racist insults against his interlocutor, calling him "dirty bicot", while the mother was filming the scene.
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Got back in his car, the septuagenarian had moved away before turning around and rushing towards the father of the family who was on the sidewalk.
In order to avoid a shock, he had jumped on the hood of the vehicle, which had finished its race by tearing the fence of the home of his victim.
The 41-year-old father underwent a forensic examination.
Suffering from several fractures, he was released from work incapacity for 30 days.
In police custody, the 72-year-old denied having photographed the victim's home or children, which was confirmed by analysis of his camera.
Unknown to the police, he was placed under judicial supervision with a ban on appearing near the home of his victim and a ban on driving a vehicle.