Without the thickness of four suits, a knife wound to the chest could have been more serious, a police investigator estimates.
For this stabbing committed on Saturday 29 October, in Chartres, the suspect, tried on Monday at the court of Chartres, was sentenced to six months of imprisonment, plus two months of revocation of the suspension of the sentence. However, he benefits from a reduced sentence in the form of house arrest with the use of an electronic bracelet.
The investigator goes back in time. Around 10:30 pm, a 43-year-old man from Chartrain went to Boulevard Charles-Péguy, near the SNCF station, to meet a 25-year-old resident of the Chartrain foster home. An argument breaks out. There, the 40-year-old pulls out a kitchen knife and stabs his opponent in the chest, just below his heart. If the attacker escapes, the victim enters the Le Factory bar where the police are alerted.
Quickly, the injured person is treated by the firefighters and the emergency doctor of the Hospitals of Chartres, who prescribes five days of ITT.
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These are the 2,500 euros
The injured man, an undocumented Malian, is interviewed. According to the investigator, the precarious worker claims to work in a cleaning company under the name of his attacker. And that he has to pay him part of the 1,600 euros of the salary he receives. The 40-year-old owed around 2,500 euros, explains the policewoman. After threatening exchanges via text messages, the two protagonists then found themselves on boulevard Charles-Péguy.
The same evening the police went to the suspect who opened the door. Screened, the man had 1.44 g of alcohol per liter of blood. He was put in a drunk tank and then in police custody.
Clean knife
On Sunday, investigators ransacked his home in the presence of the suspect. The latter indicated the knife used, which he had taken care to clean, specifies the investigator. At the hearing, he indicated that he had been attacked by the victim and that the blade had pierced his opponent while he was fighting. Version in particular contradicted by the vision of video surveillance images of the city.
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The 40-year-old has already been convicted of alcohol-related traffic offenses and harassment of his ex-girlfriend. He was prosecuted for intentional violence with two aggravating circumstances, with a weapon and under the influence of alcohol.
Thierry Delaunay
