He highlighted the moral damage suffered during these years spent in prison for nothing. Acquitted after almost four years in pre-trial detention, a 24-year-old man obtained 150,000 euros in compensation from the Rennes Court of Appeal on Wednesday, the public prosecutor’s office said. The first president of the Court of Appeal, “taking into consideration the moral damage due in particular to the young age of the person concerned (20 years), his first imprisonment, the conditions of imprisonment and the duly justified psychological trauma, condemned the legal agent of the State to pay to the interested party “this sum of money, specified this same source.
The young man had been imprisoned on August 3, 2017 when he was 20 years old, as part of the investigation into the murder of Oussama Nadi, who was stabbed to death in the tramway in Nantes, on a background of drug trafficking. Indicted for complicity in murder, he had always
denied the facts and had been acquitted by the Loire-Atlantique Assize Court on April 23, 2021, after three years, eight months and twenty days of detention.
He demanded 500,000 euros
“The amount allocated may seem significant but, in view of the very difficult four years spent in prison, where he was ostracized from the other prisoners, it does not seem to match the arduousness of this detention”, commented his lawyer. , Me David Curiel, saying he was “a little disappointed” for his client. In his request for compensation, the lawyer had claimed 500,000 euros in compensation, detailing “the prison shock” suffered by his client, who had no criminal record, faced a sentence of thirty years’ imprisonment, had been cut of his family and had to sleep on a mattress on the floor for several months.
To assess the moral damage, he relied on the case law of the Rennes Court of Appeal, which in 2012 had awarded 600,000 euros in compensation for his moral damage to Loïc Sécher, for more than seven years spent in prison for rapes that he had not committed.