Prosecuted for acts of violence with a weapon and in meetings, Lorenzo and Tinka ended their evening with a spectacular punitive expedition, during the votive festival of Milhaud, in 2019. Armed with a rifle, they first shot in the air before aiming the barrel in the direction of the crowd…
The votive festival of Milhaud turned downright sour for the two brothers who advance to the bar of the judicial court of Nîmes, Tuesday March 15, 2022. On the night of July 26 to 27, 2019, a fight first degenerates between Travelers and North Africans. Routed by their opponents, Lorenzo and Tinka flee before re-entering the scene of the party in their car, firing a rifle in the air, distributing shots and fists at random, then aim again at the audience, without hitting anyone.
Muscles bulging under his black shirt, the elder explains how the party got out of hand. ” We had drunk a little, then they started making fun of my 15-year-old little brother because he only has one eye… Then the argument continued at the bar where some took out knives . So we tried to go into an alley, but there they attacked us in large numbers: our little brother had his nose broken and his lip split open, tells the big burly in a reasonable way. We had to leave in a hurry. But when we got home, we saw that people were missing: my mother, our little sister, and others. As we had just taken a correction, I took a weapon to scare them and we went back there. That night, we all ended up in the hospital… »
“It was complicated to sort…”
The president reacts to this watered down version. “ Your victims also ended up in the hospital, even those who did absolutely nothing to you! “, points out Jean-Pierre Bandiera. Lorenzo spreads his arms. ” Everyone fell on us, even the guardshe tries to justify himself in a deep voice. We had taken so many that we thought it was them. It was difficult to sort… »
The judge pouts. ” You kicked the first comer as soon as you got out of your car: you realize, it’s amazing what you sayretorts Jean-Pierre Bandiera, severely. For the first, was it a punch or a butt? A little embarrassed, the giant wavers. ” In fact I gave a blow with the hand which held the butt he replies. The judge cuts short. ” Yes, finally you still took off his lung and then he collapsed on the ground… “, he summarizes.
“We were still thrown a knife at us! »
It was Lorenzo’s brother, Tinka, who then kicked the victim to the ground. ” And you, bravely, do you strike a man on the ground? asks the magistrate harshly, turning to him. Flowered shirt, thin and slicked back hair, Tinka, looks sincerely apologetic. ” We were wrong to go back but we had to pick up my mother and my 7 year old sister. Everything happened so fast. Someone still threw a knife at us! We didn’t think… he admits sheepishly. The judge doubts his sincerity. ” Yes, and you are going to tell me that you had been drinking and that you no longer know! “, he retorts. The younger brother protests. ” No, I came to tell you that I’m sorry he replies gravely, leaving the president speechless.
“Two communities that do not appreciate each other”
The prosecutor seems a little disillusioned by the turn of this evening. ” And There you go ! Another one of those famous votive celebrations that almost always end in a fight and gunfire between two communities that don’t like each other, summarizes Arnaud Massip. It’s a miracle that the second shot didn’t hit anyone, thankfully. But these two should have had the sense to stop before! The prosecutor requires 15 months of suspended imprisonment against Tinka and 24 months, including 9 firm, against his older brother who held the gun.
« Yes, they committed violence, but we must try to understand why: their little brother was mocked, three of them were first lynched before they returnedtries to put their lawyer Hugo Ferri into perspective. Yes, there were gunshots, but in the air. No impact will be found on the walls or on a car: they wanted to scare, and for three years, they have never been talked about again… “Tinka is sentenced to 12 months suspended and his big brother to 15 months, 9 of which are closed.
Pierre Havez
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