The president of a hearing of the correctional court of Nouméa was wounded after receiving a cell phone in the head, launched by the brother of an accused, local press reported Thursday.
The events occurred on Wednesday morning when a 23-year-old man appeared for having kicked and punched his partner because she refused to "clean up and fold the blankets". At the announcement of the verdict of 20 months in prison, beyond the requisitions, the brother of the condemned, angry, threw his mobile phone in the face of the president of the court, Thibaud Soubeyran, reported Les Nouvelles-Calédoniennes.
Affected at the level of the skull, the magistrate received several stitches in the hospital while his attacker was arrested and should be tried immediately before Friday for intentional violence. "It is the first time that a magistrate acting in New Caledonia has been attacked in this way," the attorney general James Juan declared to the local daily, who condemned "with the greatest force this unacceptable act".