Two days later, Alexandre still has trouble admitting the judgment of the Lyon Criminal Court. This police officer lynched near his home in Gerland (Lyon 7th) in June 2020, when he was not on duty but with his companion, had suffered 45 days of total incapacity for work (ITT), suffering in particular from ‘a triple ankle fracture. For lack of sufficient elements to establish their participation in the facts, as the president of the court indicated on Tuesday, only two of the ten people tried were sentenced to 5 years in prison (including 30 months of probation) .
“When I learned that, there was really a lot of anger before it turned into a feeling of total incomprehension, said the victim, Wednesday at the microphone of RTL. Eight free, that means in my mind eight people who are considered to have done nothing, while everyone has participated. “
“They took my head for a soccer ball”: The moving testimony of Alexandre, a police officer attacked in Lyon in front of his home in #LaMatinaleWE pic.twitter.com/dbqBkAdgI9
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Two minors tried this Thursday
Alexandre maintains that it was a “lynching”, when he was attacked with punches and kicks, as well as with a metal bar: “They left me for dead downstairs. me. I didn’t know if I was going to survive that or if I was going to become quadriplegic from the avalanche of beatings I received behind the skull ”.
Two minors suspected of having rounded up the group of young people at the time of this attack in Gerland were sent back to the juvenile court, where they are due to appear on Thursday.