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The sentence of the suspect of the massacre of the rue d'Enghien in Paris increased for the assault of burglars in 2016

2023-05-09T14:16:16.721Z

Highlights: The man suspected of the murder of three Kurds in Paris was sentenced to three years in prison on Tuesday. In June 2022, he had been sentenced to one year in prison by the same court. The three burglars, two Algerians and a Moroccan aged between 21 and 28, were also sentenced to the same sentence. The sentence takes into account his "proven dangerousness", "independently of other proceedings" in progress, and is accompanied by a ban on carrying a weapon for five years.


The septuagenarian suspected of the murder of three Kurds in December in Paris, William Malet, was sentenced on Tuesday to three years in prison.


William Malet, the man suspected of the murder of three Kurds in December in Paris, was tried on appeal on Tuesday in a completely different case. In 2016, while returning to his home in Livry-Gargan (Seine-Saint-Denis), he surprised three burglars and attacked them with a knife. Two of the intruders were seriously injured. For these facts, the septuagenarian was sentenced on Tuesday to three years in prison, a heavier sentence than in the first instance.

In June 2022, William Malet had indeed been sentenced to one year in prison by the Bobigny Criminal Court. The three burglars, two Algerians and a Moroccan aged between 21 and 28, were also sentenced to the same sentence. "An inconsistency," said the attorney general at the appeal hearing, claiming "four years of imprisonment" against the septuagenarian.

On 21 March, he appeared before the Paris Court of Appeal to answer the case. Far from calling the police or "leaving the scene", William Malet "attacked first", "turned off the light", "armed himself with a much more lethal weapon" than the knives available to the three attackers, a 24 cm dagger, listed the president of the court Nathalie Dutartre. "All this completely excludes the state of self-defense" pleaded by the defendant, she concluded.

"Proven dangerousness"

"You were absolutely not in a logic of fear but on the contrary of proven animosity," explained the president to the retiree, who read the deliberations by videoconference from his place of incarceration. The sentence, which takes into account his "proven dangerousness", "independently of other proceedings" in progress, is accompanied by a ban on carrying a weapon for five years.

At the hearing, William Malet explained that his conviction in this case, perceived as "unfair", had been a tipping point in his racist obsession, and that the confiscation of the illegal arsenal found in his home - ranging from old daggers to assault rifles - had left "a big void" in his life.

The 70-year-old retired TGV driver admitted to opening fire on 23 December in front of a Kurdish cultural centre in Paris, killing three people and wounding three. Indicted for murders and attempted assassinations of a racist nature, he explained his gesture by his "pathological hatred" of foreigners and by a desire for revenge and posthumous fame. He is also indicted for attacking a migrant camp in Paris with a sword in December 2021, injuring two people, one seriously.

Source: leparis

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