All through the intermission, the bus drivers meet at their premises, a prefab, in Fameck. But the ambiance is visibly tense. A seated worker refuses to shake hands with a colleague and then leaves the home without the need of stating a word. He returns a couple minutes later on with a revolver. He stays out of the home and threatens his colleague.
The 63-calendar year-old gunman was read by gendarmes in the demo very last March. He points out that he prefers to keep away from make contact with thanks to the epidemic context and his fragile wellbeing. He assures us that the weapon was not loaded, that he just wished to “scare”.
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“Legal conduct”
Offered at the Thionville courthouse bar this Tuesday, September 6, he will specify that he does not like this colleague. The latter would be intense when he refused to greet him. The accused promises not to have pointed the weapon at him, contrary to what many witnesses claim.
“From the minute the gentleman requires a weapon and displays it, the crime of violence is characterised”, remembers prosecutor Brice Partouche. It would not subject if the gun is loaded and pointed in the victim’s course. “He needed to be revered by violence: it is the actions of a hooligan”, proceeds the justice of the peace, who notes the incapacity of the accused to question himself.
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A assortment of weapons
The weapon was stored in the driver’s bus, together with a can of tear fuel and a hunting knife. His lawyer evokes “a experience of insecurity” linked to this profession. Except these usually are not the only ammunition obtainable to the 60-yr-outdated. During the search of his property in Florange, the gendarmes also took possession of a selection of knives, two prolonged rifles, a revolver and 180 cartridges. “It was for my late father, a veteran. He was Algerian, he served the French military ”, defends the accused, hitherto unidentified to justice. He has considering that improved employer.
The court pronounces against him the prohibition to possess weapons for the duration of five years and five months of imprisonment with suspension of the sentence. In accordance with the requests of the electric power of legal professional.
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