“Éric Masson was executed without warning by an individual drunk with violence, proud of the gesture accomplished.”
The prosecutor of Avignon (Vaucluse), Florence Galtier, requested life imprisonment for the murder of the police officer in the old town, on May 5, 2021, against Ilias Akoudad dressed in black and with his head down. in the glass cage of the detained defendants.
She also requested a security sentence of 22 years.
Tried for "murder of a person holding public authority" as well as for attempt, the young man is accused of having fired point blank at the brigadier in civilian clothes, then in the direction of his teammate who was not hit.
“It was not only the death of a police officer that shocked France,” recalled the magistrate.
What will shock is the gratuitousness of this gesture.
» Police officers from all over France took part in a rally in support of Eric Masson's loved ones at the Avignon police station a few days after his death.
“It was an earthquake within the national police, but also within the population,” recalled Frédéric Vaux, director general of the national police, on the first day of the hearing, while Éric Masson’s colleagues attended the hearing. the entire trial.
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