“I wasn’t there. What would have happened if the gendarmes had not arrested him?” asks the victim’s father. The night before, the man had threatened the 17-year-old girl and her family on the phone: “I will burn you all, I will cut your throats. I will rape you and your mother because I have the right to do so”.
On the witness stand, the stocky defendant with a full beard asserted that he had knocked on the door with the best of intentions: “I wanted to apologise for my behaviour”. However, this was not the suspect’s first outburst. When he returned from a trip a few days earlier, the follower of a radical (“Salafist”) Islam had sent a frightening message to the young woman with whom he had been chatting on Facebook for three weeks. What was the reasoning? She refused – even then – to marry him: “Soon we will cut your throats and play football with your heads”. The text was accompanied by a video showing a beheading scene.
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The teenager’s father is angry and devastated: “Islam is not what I have been told for two hours. The religion stands for peace, tolerance and respect […] We have been living in fear for a year”.
Fabio Califano, who was acquitted on this point, was given three years in prison and five years of social work (obligation to treat, work and prohibit contact with the victim and stay in the department of Doubs). He is now registered as S (suivi des personnes radicalisées). […] Le Bien Public
