A 25-year-old faces life imprisonment for assaulting a sexagenarian in the middle of the street in July 2016 in Toulouse district Casselardit. The man died a few days later at the hospital in Purpan. His attacker is tried on Thursday and Friday before the Assize Court of Haute-Garonne for “theft with violence resulting in death”.
1400 euros brought back from PMU
The whole stake of the trial is to know if the sixty-year-old died as a result of the assault or if it is because of the pathologies from which he suffered. For the justice there is indeed a causal link between the fall of the victim and his death, but the doctors disagree. They claim that in another the fractured pelvis would not have been fatal.
The victim, accustomed to a PMU was a big player. That day bundles of € 50 protrude from his pocket. His attacker follows him, hits him and strips him. of 1400 euros. Hospitalized in Purpan on July 3, 2016, he went into cardiac arrest four days later and died on July 29 without ever having been heard by the police.
The assailant, a carpenter now aged 25, explains that he learned of the death of his victim by the police. He had returned home in Gironde and was confused by video surveillance andcall to witness launched in the press.
The accused is defended by the Toulouse lawyers masters Alexandre martin and Emmanuelle Franck.
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