The attacker is known to the police, having already been convicted of stabbing a farmer in Laroque-Timbaut in June 2017.
In the courtroom of the criminal court of Agen, the accused is no ordinary defendant. It is enough to mention his surname, Kamal Belbakkal, to revive the memory of the trial of this 40-year-old man, in which he faced a farmer from Laroque-Timbaut whom he had stabbed because he had dropped straw residues on the road below.
The lawyer of the joint plaintiff had tried in vain to have the case handled by the anti-terrorism prosecution because his client claimed that Kamal Belbakkal, who was classified as an “S” (Islamist, editor’s note), had shouted “Allah Akbar” at the time of the attack. Meanwhile, the 40-year-old has increased his criminal record to include cases of violence against fellow prisoners.
On Monday July 25, Kamal Belbakkal was convicted of repeated use of violence with weapons in an immediate trial. Two days earlier, he had told his brother’s neighbour – who was housing him in Villeneuve-sur-Lot – to stop honking so as not to wake his relative who was on night shift. The argument escalates into insults and one or even several blows to the neighbour’s head with a broom.
The result: a 10 cm wound on the head, which was stitched with thirteen stitches. “He had his hand in front of my eye, I picked up the broom from the ground, raised my arm and did not see where I hit,” reports Kamal Belbakkal, who expresses regret and speaks of self-defence. (…) Sud Ouest
