Fallen idol.
The Nancy Criminal Court, which had requested at the end of March three years in prison against Tony Vairelles, sentenced this Monday morning the former striker of RC Lens and the French football team to 5 years in prison. , 2 of which were suspended.
Or a sentence of three years in prison.
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The former international was tried last March with three of his brothers for violence with a weapon committed ten years earlier at the exit of a nightclub.
The public prosecutor, François Pérain, had also requested three years firm against Fabrice Vairelles and 6 months firm for the other two brothers, Giovan and Jimmy.
The four brothers are suspected of having opened fire and injured three security guards at the Les Quatre-As nightclub in Essey-lès-Nancy (Meurthe-et-Moselle) on the night of October 22 to 23, 2011.
“Very great confusion about what could have happened”
"The one and only good justice is to release [them], since we are unable to prove with certainty whether it was one of them who fired, and if so, which one", underlined during the trial Me Frédéric Berna, one of their lawyers contacted by AFP.
"There is a great deal of confusion about what could have happened, the doubt must benefit everyone", he had insisted, specifying that he himself and the other counsel for Vairelles had pleaded for the nullity of the procedure, arguing the slowness of the investigation which saw four successive investigating judges in ten years.
The three security guards of the nightclub were prosecuted for violence in a meeting with weapons, in this case “a tear gas canister, security barriers and a truncheon”.
The prosecution had requested a four-month suspended sentence for one of them and the release for the other two, recognizing self-defense.
Tony Vairelles, from the gypsy community, was selected eight times for the France team, from 1998 to 2000 (1 goal).
A colorful striker with the famous "mule cut", he notably wore the colors of Lens, Lyon, Bordeaux, Bastia and Gueugnon.
