News – Justice | Florange’s crime: “It’s the reaction of a sick man”

A man died on the night of Monday to Tuesday in Florange. Tayeb Chekhchoukh died from stab wounds by a friend he met on the street, whom he occasionally housed in his room in the Amli foyer. A 54-year-old man died suddenly and the man who is suspected of stabbing him is the subject of the investigation. Aged 33, he was indicted Wednesday night for intentional homicide by a judge of the criminal pole of Metz. He is currently in pre-trial detention in the Queuleu establishment. “The investigation takes on its full meaning in this case, considers his lawyer, Me Rédouane Saoudi. Two aspects seem essential to me: a factual evaluation of the events and a medical evaluation. “

The young thirties, from Thionville, admits to having stabbed. “But he had no desire to kill,” said his defender. Constrained by the secrecy of the investigation, he evokes “an act in reaction” during an evening when alcohol and drugs were allegedly consumed in a massive way. A gesture “of someone who does not react normally. It doesn’t have the same codes. ”

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“Her family is distraught”

The respondent is a sick man, and that does not seem neutral in this case. Mr. Saoudi: “He has known serious psychiatric disorders since his sixteen years. Troubles which led him to specialized structures in the form of hospital admissions or requested by third parties. His family is invested, a tutor has been with him for years. “Questions may arise about the management of care, about its effectiveness. It is clear that they have not worked for him so far. This dossier really raises the question of the place of sick people in our society. Today, his relatives are distraught. “While the other children in the family made a success of their lives,” this mental illness deconstructed his own. Especially since he has been out of care for months. He wrongly thinks that he does not need to be treated or helped. “

He had an apartment in Thionville but “he was looking for life on the street, on the fringes”, says a relative. His addictions had already brought him to justice. “Never for violence with a knife. Last December, a sentencing judge called for the revocation of a stay. Asked, his tutor had considered that incarceration represented the only solution to protect him and initiate care in a closed structure. The young man should have spent a few months in detention. But the Covid-19 and the health crisis did not allow the judge’s decision to be carried out. Otherwise, he would not have ended up in Florange last Tuesday.

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