“We are appealing for eight out of ten defendants, six of the eight released and the two convicted,” the Lyon prosecutor told AFP on Thursday. At the end of the hearing on November 5, 2021, two men aged 19 and 20 were sentenced on Tuesday to five years ‘imprisonment, including thirty months’ suspended probation, for violence aggravated by three circumstances. : in assembly, with weapon and on depositary of the public authority.
This sentence corresponded to the requisitions of the public prosecution, but the prosecution is appealing because the required committal warrant has not been issued by the criminal court. The prosecution is also appealing against six of the eight defendants who had been released for lack of sufficient information to establish their participation in the facts, according to the court.
Two minors sent to juvenile court
At the hearing, the public prosecutor had required for these defendants two and a half years in prison, considering that they had participated in a “unique scene of violence”. The facts occurred on June 14, 2020, when the police officer, off duty and in civilian clothes, returned from a party with his companion. At the time stationed at Caluire-et-Cuire, the official was punched and kicked, as well as with a metal bar. He had suffered 45 days of total incapacity for work (ITT).
At the hearing, the defendants, identified by video surveillance and telephony, acknowledged their presence on the scene, but denied having committed the violence and assured that they were unaware of the victim’s status as a police officer. Two minors suspected of having provoked a first altercation and of having rounded up the group are sent back to the juvenile court. The hearing was postponed until Thursday, March 4.