Before answering the questions of the court, one of the six defendants retried on appeal for ultraviolent kidnapping in Aulnay-sous-Bois (Seine-Saint-Denis) in 2014, turns to the bench of the civil parties. “I sincerely wanted to apologize, it was not the point to hurt… I just wanted to get the drugs back… But the drugs, the money, it doesn’t deserve all that. I subjected, I must pay, ”launches Boubakari B., lanky thirty, former host, as relieved to apologize six years after the facts.
Grandfather, the former drug smuggler tortured after the theft of the 70 kilos he was conveying, then stood up: “I’m glad to hear that. You have a big pair of asses to denounce yourself, but that you take it on your own, that really bothers me ”.
Tortured with incredible violence
The accused recognizes the violent punches, such as those which have broken teeth or nose, burns with a “heated knife”, but not his accomplices. There were at least three of them to torture Petit Père and Philippe for nearly two days. A “sadist”, a “nicer one”. Polo, maybe, or a “little blond with blue eyes.” We won’t know. “I cannot”, repeats the accused, already sentenced to four years for trafficking and fourteen years for torture in Bobigny, it was the heaviest sentence.
Just before, the attorney general, Rémi Crosson du Cormier, made the defense jump by evoking the case of corruption of jurors which marred the first trial. He produced a seven-page judgment, rendered on April 7, by the investigating chamber about a nicknamed Butch, indicted in this case and kept in detention, we understand, to avoid any risk of pressure on the new jurors.
Familiar faces
In this judgment, we learn how a juror was approached during the first trial. “We caught him! Friends of the defendants would have welcomed a wiretap. They had come to watch the trial, and recognized a familiar face among the jurors. They attended the same mosque. Several meetings would have taken place on the sidelines of the trial, friends wanted to know the “atmosphere of the trial” behind the scenes.
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During a drive, they would have recalled the innocence of two defendants in particular. It is this juror, “the guy of 13” who would have leaked the verdict before it was proclaimed in the room by the court. As an alternate, he did not participate in the discussions but attended. Did he exert pressure or convince others to vote for acquittals, which the president had considered, in a confidential note “totally unfounded”?
However, no intimidation or payment of money has been proven by the investigation at this stage. Even though the wiretaps shed light on the idea of paying the victim 100,000 euros to reconsider his statements …
“A serious breach of the presumption of innocence”
“It is a serious breach of the presumption of innocence which suggests that the acquittals should be called into question!” »Castigates Me Jean-Christophe Tymoczko, lawyer of an acquitted. “It is an unfair process, it is only a question of suspicion, and my client, whose name is mentioned several times, was not heard, neither as an author, nor as an accomplice” , deplores Me Joseph Breham.
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Lawyers are demanding the entire investigation and, failing that, the trial to be adjourned. In vain. Only an investigating judge can decide, and the court is only seized for ultraviolent sequestration, not for bribery of jurors, said President Xavière Siméoni. The trial continues.
Any inaccuracies in the trial?
This episode is not alone in questioning the role of those who hammer home their innocence. The ex-girlfriend of Mohamed C., sponsor of the traffic, Penelope by her nickname, had questioned each other in great detail in this incredible outburst of violence. “Liar”, “hysterical”, deceived woman wanting revenge … The civil party also admits inaccuracies.
And it is she, Pénélope, that the quintet of accused suspects of having “bearded” (stolen, note) the goods, in family, perhaps even with the complicity of the “Sse-Ru”, the “Russian” , a “big thug” from Bobigny. But Pénélope, condemned for trafficking in Bobigny, and witness at the assizes, did not make the trip to the Paris Court of Appeal this time. The municipal police of Neuilly-sur-Seine went to knock on her house this week, but did not find her. Verdict this Friday.
VIDEO. René, alias Petit-Père: “I am a repentant international drug trafficker”
