“Within a few centimeters, he could have hit the jugular or the carotid artery. My client thought he was going to die,” the victim’s lawyer said on Monday.
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A 75-year-old man who had cut about 10 centimeters in length of the throat of a gardener who worked in Villecresnes (Val-de-Marne), Friday, after having uttered racist insults against him, was arrested and placed under judicial supervision, Monday November 20, according to the Créteil public prosecutor’s office. The septuagenarian will have to appear in court on May 16, 2024, the prosecution said.
The offenses retained are “violence with use of a weapon” and “non-public insult due to origin, ethnicity, nation, race or religion”, specified the public prosecutor, confirming information from the site of information StreetPress. “For my client, this is indeed an attempted homicide,” said Hosni Maati, the victim’s lawyer.
“Freewheeling racism”
“Within a few centimeters, he could have hit the jugular or the carotid artery. My client thought he was going to die,” insisted Hosni Maati. The 29-year-old father’s injury resulted in 15 days of total incapacity for work (ITT).
Friday around 2 p.m., the septuagenarian lost his temper when he noticed that a van from a gardening company was blocking his exit from a dead end. “You dirty bastard”he said in particular before attacking the gardener with a cutter, saccording to a police source. The latter specifies that the facts are corroborated in particular by a video taken by the victim and two videos from video surveillance cameras.
Jean-Luc Mélenchon, leader of LFI, condemned a “vile attempt at Arabophobic throat-slitting”, while the boss of the PS, Olivier Faure, mentioned a “freewheeling racism”. LFI deputies from Val-de-Marne Louis Boyard, Mathilde Panot, Clémence Guetté and Rachel Keke were also outraged at “fight racism”.