She says she has “seen nothing, felt nothing”.
Angèle Houin is slowly recovering from her aggression, Monday August 29 in Cannes (Alpes-Maritimes).
At midday, this 89-year-old woman was violently attacked by three young people who stole her bag and left her unconscious on the ground.
A week after the events, the retiree testified from her hospital room.
"I told the firefighters
I fell
, they told me
no
," she explains, interviewed by BFMTV.
💬 "I'm not too angry, is it their fault or that of their parents?"
👉 Angèle Houin, the retiree assaulted by three minors in Cannes, testifies on BFMTV pic.twitter.com/ZH0vGnWixP
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“It's funny, I tell you, especially since I didn't do anything to these young people.
(…) I'm not too angry, is it their fault or the fault of the parents, we don't know.
They are young, 15 years old, I have 15-year-old grandchildren, ”she continued, her face swollen, still very marked by the injuries caused by her attack.
The three attackers, minors, were all arrested by the police on Wednesday and confessed, without expressing any real regret or awareness of the seriousness of the facts, according to BFMTV.
Money in exchange for withdrawing a complaint?
Angèle Houin also claims to have been offered money to withdraw her complaint against these three suspects.
“The parents phoned my granddaughter to offer them money to remove the complaint.
They called her and said to her:
You don't want to withdraw the complaint?
We give you money
.
She said:
No we don't want anything, get out
, ”she said.
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Cannes: an octogenarian violently attacked by three minors
At the same time, the LR mayor of Cannes, David Lisnard, wrote a letter to the Minister of the Interior in which he denounced the reaction of the family of one of the attackers, who "would have tried to cover up the actions of the "one of the defendants on the basis of false testimony", underlines Nice-Matin.
In his letter, David Lisnard also asked Gérald Darmanin that "the excuse of minority can be automatically lifted in such serious cases and that the perpetrators of such acts be considered as litigants in their own right".