The two men, placed in police custody Thursday, suspected of having violently assaulted a Jewish man and stealing his watch in early August in Paris, were indicted and imprisoned, a judicial source announced on Saturday.
The two suspects, aged 18, arrested Wednesday and Thursday, were first sent for immediate appearance. But Friday, during the hearing, the criminal court declared itself incompetent to judge them, after a procedural hiccup.
Facts that come under the assize court
While he had just asked for heavy sentences of 3 and 4 years with a revocation of "at least two years" of suspended sentence, the prosecutor finally returned to his indictment, explaining that the defendants incurred 15 years in prison and that the court was therefore incompetent to judge these criminal facts - which fall under a court of assizes. The president of the court therefore referred the case to the prosecution so that it opens a judicial investigation.
In the evening, the two men were finally indicted for theft with violence resulting in total incapacity for work (ITT) for more than 8 days, committed in a meeting and because of the victim's membership of a religion, and remanded in custody. They are suspected of having attacked a young man, father, on August 6 in eastern Paris.
"Dirty Jew, dirty son of a bitch, you're a dead man, dirty race"
The latter told Friday during the hearing to have been followed in the entrance hall of the building of his parents by two people, who took the elevator with him. On the landing, he reported having been "strangled", having received "punches", and having been insulted as "dirty Jew, dirty son of a bitch, you're a dead man, dirty race".
He said he was then pushed down the stairs and then lost consciousness, having his watch worth 10,000 euros stolen. It was his father who, worried not to see him arrive, discovered him inanimate.
Men known to the police
The police tracked down the two men using footage from the neighborhood CCTV cameras. In the box, the latter recognized the theft but not all of the blows, and denied the anti-Semitic insults: they claimed to have seen the watch on the victim's arm, but not the kippah he was wearing.
One of the two suspects was also indicted Friday evening for aggravated theft, for separate facts discovered during the investigation. The two men were sentenced in January 2020 to 5 years in prison, including 3 years suspended for complicity in murder and aggravated violence in particular, in a file dating from 2018. One of them also has two other convictions of suspended prison sentence.
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