A 32-year-old schizophrenic man was sentenced to nine years in prison on Friday for the fatal beating of a Guinean researcher in 2019 in Rouen and racial slurs.
The Criminal Court of Seine-Maritime went below the requisitions of Advocate General Marion Meunier, who had requested in the morning 12 years of imprisonment against this 32-year-old man, hospitalized in a unit for difficult patients (UMD) since his arrest .
The accused “is schizophrenic.
If he is out of care (like the day of the events, editor's note), he is capable of being dangerous, but his father and his curator at the time said that he is capable of controlling himself, ”said Marion Meunier. .
For her, as for the court, the discernment of the accused, under reinforced curatorship since 2013, was altered and not abolished, contrary to what the defense argued on July 19, 2019.
A “purely gratuitous aggression”
That day, in Canteleu, in the suburbs of Rouen, Mamoudou Barry, 31, a Guinean researcher, calmly got out of his car to try to understand the "racist insults" that the accused had just uttered, explained the magistrate.
According to the victim's wife, the attacker then referred to the Senegal-Algeria final of the African Cup of Nations football which was being played that evening.
This man had beaten the academic.
"He hit hard, including when the victim finds himself on the ground" and "there are many racist insults uttered before and after the attack", continued the magistrate, qualifying the facts as "purely gratuitous aggression".
He "did not leave the victim any chance", insisted Marion Meunier.
Mamoudou Barry, father of a two-year-old child, died the following day from his injuries.
During the requisitions, the accused, flanked by three nurses, remained as usually during this trial, with a blank stare.
The defense had asked the court to declare him criminally irresponsible.
“It is accepted that there was a hallucinatory experience in the life course” of the accused and “a delusional syndrome was observed a few days after his arrest”, argued Herveline Demerville.
