A young 21-year-old Moroccan asylum seeker, and a 32-year-old Libyan under an Obligation to Leave French Territory (OQTF), were sentenced to prison terms this Friday by the Grenoble Criminal Court after three ultra-violent attacks committed in recent days in the streets of the city.
An 88-year-old woman and two 21-year-old women were indeed attacked and robbed by these two men who did not hesitate, in the last two cases, to make a strangling key to the victims, to the point of their make you lose consciousness.
Tuesday, November 17, an octogenarian who had just gone to the pharmacy in her neighborhood, boulevard Foch, was attacked in the lobby of her building, her attackers brutalizing her and tearing off her gold necklace. The investigations of the departmental security investigators, in particular the analysis of video surveillance elements, made it possible to identify two suspects on whom they were already working. Because the police were convinced: these two men were the authors of two other attacks, committed on Sunday 8 and Monday 9 November.
On the evening of November 8, in fact, a 21-year-old business school student who was walking in the Quais de l’Isère district, in the immediate vicinity of the departure station of the Bastille cable car, was attacked from behind. by the duo. One of the thieves did not hesitate to strangle the victim with his arm, causing him to pass out. The next evening, another 21-year-old girl, a student leaving a fast-food restaurant where she works to pay for her studies, was attacked on rue Lesdiguières in very similar circumstances. She too had been strangled to the point of losing consciousness. His cell phone had been stolen, as well as his bank card.
Successively arrested by the police on Wednesday and Thursday, the two men were taken into police custody and have therefore just appeared in court. Ali El Ahrach, 21, and Mohamed Rahmouni, 32, were sentenced to two years in prison and five years banishment. Both were placed under warrant of committal and were imprisoned.
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