The events took place on September 3 and began inside the Leclerc hypermarket, in Fameck. Visibly intoxicated, a 51-year-old man asks a customer, already in the checkout line, to let him pass in front of him. Faced with his refusal, the man gets angry, insults him and then leaves. In the parking lot, while the customer is putting his groceries in the trunk of his car, the individual comes back to the charge. A verbal altercation ensues before the one who confessed to having “drunk 5 to 6 strong beers” sprinkles tear gas on the poor customer who had not asked for anything. She was prescribed a 3-day ITT the next day for ophthalmic problems. The attacker was then intercepted by the gendarmes and then taken into police custody.
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Already 43 convictions
Presented this Thursday in immediate appearance before the criminal court of Thionville, the defendant, who has no less than 43 convictions to his credit, ensures that “it is the other” who provoked him. “If I gasped, it’s because he wanted to attack me. When he saw me he started to insult me, he was hysterical. “
At the stand, the victim gives a completely different version of the facts. “He was alcoholic. He stood in front of the car to prevent me from leaving. “The representative of the public prosecutor pointed out to the defendant that” there has not been a year since you were 19 that you were not sentenced. How do you explain it? “It’s because every time I found myself on the street,” he replies. The court sentences him to 12 months in prison, including 10 months with a reinforced provisional suspension for two years. He was kept in detention.
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