They are aged 18 to 24 (except one), educated or integrated professionally, live with their parents for the most part. Their criminal record is clean (or almost). Ten young men were tried, this Monday, July 3, in immediate appearance in Metz for having participated in the urban violence which hit the department last week.
Sandrine ISSARTEL – Today at 21:44 | updated today at 21:46
In an exceptional situation, an exceptional audience. For at least three nights, the Moselle department was the scene of urban violence of rare intensity followed by a series of arrests. On Saturday July 1 alone, the Metz prosecutor’s office recorded the sad record of thirty people placed in police custody the day after a particularly incendiary evening, which foreshadowed a very busy hearing of immediate appearances at the start of the week.
“No clerks, no CI! »
This was the case with six cases directly linked to the events and ten defendants to be judged for the Metz criminal court as well as a case involving four defendants, peripheral.All in the midst of the clerks’ strike. About sixty of them had taken their places in front of the courtroom, chanting “No clerks, no CIs! “. At 2:30 p.m., one of the movement’s spokespersons called on his comrades to leave the premises in order “not to obstruct justice”. Divided into two courtrooms, the files could be judged.
Black beanie and sunglasses
Arm in a sling, an injury to the arch, a 19-year-old high school student was arrested in Rombas on the night of June 30 to July 1 in possession of a 50 cm mortar, a surgical mask, a black cap and sunglasses. Freshly returned from his vacation in Greece, the young man who lived with his parents found himself in the company of about fifteen people who attacked the town hall, the cultural center and the municipal trash cans. If the public prosecutor had requested a firm 9-month sentence accompanied by his continued detention, he received a 12-month prison sentence accompanied by a probationary suspension of two years forcing him to perform work of interest. general (TIG) for 140 hours.
Two young 19-year-old men, in whose car enough to make molotov cocktails was found on July 1 in Hagondange, were given a 9-month suspended sentence. A 50-year-old prosecuted for burning bar umbrellas and trash cans on Place Saint-Jacques in Metz received a 4-month suspended sentence.
torch and stone
A problem in the procedure led the court to release a 24-year-old Messin, for having gone to the anti-police demonstration on Friday evening, in Metz, in possession of a flashlight and a stone. After setting fire to a trash can, he was accused of violence against a police officer. Two other 19-year-old defendants, prosecuted for having participated in violent groups on June 30, in Faulquemont, in Moselle-est, were also released.
The three people prosecuted for attacking the Aldi store and a city bus in Metz on the night of June 29 to 30 have asked for time to prepare their defense.
The lawyers for the defendants called for not giving in to the haste caused by the news or to the injunctions to show firmness and endeavored to recall the principle of individualization. An arduous task when it comes to offenses committed in groups.
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