They will have to hold their own. The two teenagers, perpetrators last summer of a violent attack on an 89-year-old Cannoise, were sentenced this Wednesday by the Grasse juvenile court to one year of probation with obligation of care. The attack on Angèle Haouin, whose images had been published on social networks, had aroused a very broad wave of indignation.
The court accompanied this decision with several prohibitions, including that of entering into contact with the victim and, as an additional penalty, that of possessing or carrying a weapon for a period of five years, specified the prosecution of Grasse.
Placed for several months in a closed educational center, from which the oldest had briefly escaped in December, the two minors, now aged 15 and 16, will be able to return to their home. “There was no point in them staying locked up. The main thing is that they have understood the lesson even if I am not really convinced of it, ”reacted René Ginola, the son of the victim, questioned by 20 minutes.
New decision in September
On August 29, 2022, the 15-year-old teenager (14 years old at the material time) had struck a violent blow in the face of the pensioner, knocking her to the ground and leaving her lifeless in front of her residence in the west of Cannes. . The second then grabbed her handbag. A third protagonist, also 14 years old last summer, and who was filming the scene, had been released by the Grasse juvenile court. The prosecution had appealed this decision and a new hearing should have him in September on his subject.
It is only then that Angèle Haouin, 90 years old for two months, could claim compensation. In the meantime, the grandmother still lives on the Côte d’Azur. “She is strong, but she has sequelae, testifies her son again. The doctors still made an infiltration in her cervical to treat the pains which still make her suffer. »