On Wednesday March 22, the attack by one person on two women in the Pierres Vives neighbourhood of Vesoul provoked emotion and far beyond. Nicolas, one of the sons of one of the victims, Colombe Grillot, is testifying alongside Jean-Marc Florand. The family’s lawyer brings forward some evidence of this attack, which was probably premeditated.
(…) Colombe Grillot, who was 72 in September, was the victim of a rare violent attack by an individual on Wednesday March 22 in a quiet street in the Pierres Vives neighbourhood (our earlier report). A 50-year-old woman was also beaten and left for dead before the assailant violently attacked the 70-year-old. “He crushed our mother, breaking her ribs, pelvis, jaw and all her facial bones with punches and kicks. She is disfigured and he left her to die in front of her granddaughter, my 13-year-old niece,” Nicolas Grillot recounts in a heartbroken voice, finding it difficult to describe the incident. “He wanted to kill her and we would like to understand his motives, even if we already have an idea”.
(…) After this attack, the public prosecutor commented in a press release in the evening. “At 9:45 a.m. a minibus with two children stopped when a man opened the driver’s door, forced the 50-year-old female driver to get out and beat her with his bare hands. The 34-year-old then attacked a 71-year-old woman who had just entered a house. He also gave her numerous blows before this woman’s granddaughter, who was present at the time of the attack, alerted the police.”
(…) Other worrying details, challenge the lawyer Jean-Marc Florand, in charge of defending the family’s interests. For him, the charges brought are not appropriate. He explains: “One must question the criminal classification of the facts, which is only preliminary. The prosecutor has found attempted murder”. The criminal lawyer supports: “If the legal elements are confirmed, it would be more like attempted murder. One would have to consider a terrorist classification against the background of the perpetrator’s radicalisation”. (…) La Presse de Vesoul