The case of the attack on Angèle Houin, the octogenarian from Cannes whose two teenage attackers were sentenced on Wednesday to a year of probation, bounces on another ground. The father of the youngest, deprived just after the facts of his location in a Cannes market, announced to Nice morning that he was attacking the municipality after “any [sa] family” was “exposed by the mayor”. “All this is indecency”, reacts this Thursday the town hall. A complaint for “invasion of privacy”, “breach of professional secrecy”, “defamation” and “discrimination” was in any case filed by the parent of the boy who had dealt a violent blow to the face of the retiree, the leaving inanimate in front of her building on August 29, 2022. The town hall “will endeavor to demonstrate that none of these grievances are founded”, she assures, recalling that “Madame Houin is the only victim in this file”.
“By revealing his surname, as well as information on the educational and legal situation of his minor son and by exposing a dispute with social organizations concerning the payment of certain allowances, the city has diverted information obtained within the framework of certain missions of public service. The family was delivered to popular condemnation and a racist wave was fed by the press release from the town hall, ”advances Me Hervé Seroussi, counsel for the plaintiff, in the columns of the daily.
Face uncovered twice in TPMP
In a publication dated December 4, the city had actually released the name of the assailant’s father. She indicated that her son was “locally known to have been expelled several times from [ses] colleges” and that “the family [était] also known to the CAF and the Alpes-Maritimes Department to which it owes the reimbursement of substantial sums, unduly paid”. The community also specified that the market place was only occupied “half a day a week” and that it had not been reallocated to it, “first as a precautionary measure of public order, then definitively”. . Finally, she noted that the person concerned had alone “decided to publicize [cette] municipal decision” by “contacting the press to place oneself as a victim”. Nice morning gave him the floor on this subject in an article published on December 2 without giving his identity.
But the town hall also recalls this Thursday that the father of the family has himself “exposed twice in television programs with a large audience”, including for the first time on September 15. That evening, he appeared with his face uncovered alongside another of his children, also without anonymity, on the show Don’t touch my post (TPMP) on C8. He had come back a second time, on December 5. “All this is indecency, like that […] to believe that his identity has been revealed by the city, ”notes the municipality in its new reaction released on Thursday.
David Lisnard denounces a “non-punishment” for the aggressors
“From the point of view of the town hall, the parents of these attackers will never be the victims, whatever they say and whatever they do by using the media once again, argues the community. In this case, Madame Houin is the only victim, savagely attacked from behind and left for dead in front of her home. »
On Wednesday, the LR mayor of Cannes David Lisnard had qualified the decision of the Grasse children’s court, to sentence the two teenagers to one year of probation, of “non-sanction”. It “does not respect the victim and does not protect society” and it “demonstrates the urgency of carrying out the reform of criminal justice for minors that we are proposing with [la députée] Alexandra Martin, did he write on Twitter.