(…) On April 16, 2024, the defendant disregarded the right of way. Nevertheless, he got out of his Peugeot 206 to approach the driver, who had to stop to avoid him… and who had just unfortunately used her horn. When the driver of a minibus saw this, he tried to intervene. Without getting out of the car, he asked the driver to stop harassing the woman.
The angry driver followed the minibus for several kilometres. When he arrived at her level and opened the window, he made wild gestures and shouted racist insults: ‘Pull over, you dirty white man, you dirty Frenchman’ (…) He admitted the insults, but not that he had said: ‘I’m here to collect your welfare and fuck your women’. The driver of the minibus, who is present at the hearing, is certain that he heard these remarks.
(…) The very next day, he threatened to kill two employees of the Leclerc department stores’ in Paramé. This time it was because the shop staff had failed to activate his Google Card. He shouted insults and death threats: ‘I will kill you … I will cut your throat by the Quran, I will smash your head in with a spanner. (…)
He admits that he is impulsive, which is also reflected in his criminal record with eight criminal records.
Laurent-Callame, the defence lawyer, said she was ‘blindsided’ (…) She also pointed out the ‘improbability of this case’: ‘My client is as French as you and I, he was born in France, his father and mother are French. These insults are as if he had said: ‘I hate myself because I am French’’. (…) Actu.fr
(…) She recounts his childhood in Sarcelles (Val-d’Oise), surrounded by violence at home and on the street. ‘He was able to survive this thanks to a certain ability to react,’ she emphasises, in order to curb his impulsiveness.
The man concludes by apologising to the people he has ‘wronged’. He is convicted of death threats and public insult based on origin, ethnicity, nation, race or religion. He receives a six-month suspended prison sentence, which obliges him to undergo medical treatment and to start looking for a job. The public prosecutor’s office had applied for a further two months probation. He must pay a total of €950 to the three co-plaintiffs. (…) Ouest France