A 75-year-old man who stabbed a gardener in the throat with a cutter who was working in Villecresnes (Val-de-Marne) on Friday, after uttering racist insults against him, was arrested and placed under surveillance on Monday. judicial, according to the Créteil public prosecutor’s office.
The offenses retained are “violence with use of a weapon” and “non-public insult due to origin, ethnicity, nation, race or religion”, the public prosecutor told AFP, confirming information from the news site StreetPress. But according to the victim’s lawyer, Me Hosni Maati, “for (s) our client, it is indeed an attempted homicide”.
Friday around 2 p.m., the septuagenarian noticed that a van from a gardening company was blocking his exit from a dead end. “You dirty bastard,” he said before grabbing a cutter and slashing the throat of the 29-year-old gardener 10 centimeters long, a police source detailed.
15 days of ITT
According to this same source, this version of the facts is corroborated in particular by a video taken by the victim and two videos from video surveillance cameras. “Within a few centimeters, he could have hit the jugular or the carotid artery. My client thought he was going to die,” insisted Me Maati.
The young father’s injury resulted in 15 days of ITT. Jean-Luc Mélenchon, leader of LFI, condemned a “vile attempt at Arabophobic throat-slaughter”, while PS boss Olivier Faure spoke of “freewheeling racism”.
LFI deputies from Val-de-Marne were also outraged on The septuagenarian will have to appear in court on May 16, 2024, the prosecution said.