Its purpose is to calm the spirits. The lawyer for the young man indicted for the murder of a 25-year-old gendarme whom he struck in a car near Agen on Sunday asked public opinion not to "lynch" his client.
The latter faces life imprisonment.
A boy "totally scared"
"He absolutely does not dispute his responsibility but obviously disputes the homicidal intention which the prosecution has widely reported," said his lawyer Me Edouard Martial. "He is a boy who is completely frightened by the consequences of what happened and especially by the qualification that falls on him. (…) He remembered that he was said to be a murderer. From murderer to monster not long ago, and the qualification has also been used on social networks ”.
"I trust the judges," added the lawyer. “I ask them to also be independent of public opinion. How to resist with social networks and the rampage that we are witnessing? (…) They allow themselves everything, to judge, to condemn and to lynch if they were given the opportunity. We will do with it but our voice will not remain silent, ”he warned.
A partial investigation according to the lawyer
Me Martial, who will share the defense with his colleague from the bar of Agen Me Isabelle Gillet, deplored the fact that the Bordeaux search section is in charge of the investigation while the victim is a gendarme: "We found nothing better than designating a gendarmerie service to investigate another gendarmerie service. Is that the French equality of arms? "
Military honors will be returned to Mélanie Lemée on Thursday at the headquarters of the gendarmerie region of Nouvelle-Aquitaine, in Mérignac (Gironde), in the presence of Gérald Darmanin.
Society
The motorist who mowed down a young gendarme in Lot-et-Garonne, was driving "between 130 and 160 km / h at the time of the impact"
Politics
Arriving at Place Beauvau, Gérald Darmanin tries to seduce the police
- Aquitaine
- Violence
- Chauffard
- Gendarmerie
- Agen
- Society