It was the trial of a violence as gratuitous as it was incomprehensible: it ended on Friday in Grenoble with the conviction of two brothers to fifteen years imprisonment for the death of another young man, killed in an outburst of beatings. the release of a nightclub in 2018. Yanis and Younes El Habib, 22 and 23, listened in apparent calm to the president declaring them guilty of aggravated fatal blows.

Both had been sent back to the Assizes of Isère for the murder of Adrien Perez, attempted murder on one of his friends and aggravated violence.

Regarding the two main defendants, the witnesses nevertheless spoke of a quiet childhood: nice boys, generous teenagers.

Younes had "a very beautiful personality, very touching" with "intelligence, humor, finesse", testifies a teacher responsible for monitoring the two boys.

“It's a crush in a teaching career,” she admits, very moved at the helm.

Leaving the family home from the age of 18

When they came of age and faced with violence from their father, the two brothers left the family home without a diploma, lived odd jobs and went almost every weekend to the Phoenix, a nightclub in Meylan, the wealthy suburb of Grenoble. At the hearing, Yanis, the youngest, recognizes an "impulsive" temperament. Following an assault, an aunt advised the eldest, Younes, to carry a knife at all times. He will do so, until the early morning hours of July 29, 2018.

In the courtroom appears the setting up of the terrible mechanics that led to the drama, thanks to the videos.

That of the bouncer, where we see the brothers entering the disco without going through a metal detector.

That of the street, which shows the brothers leaving the nightclub after an altercation in the airlock with a friend of Adrien Perez who will leave Yanis scratched on the neck and in a black anger.

The jurors did not include the intention of homicide in their verdict

Yanis walks ahead with a hurry, his brother follows him. The third accused, sentenced to two years in prison, is preparing for a fight. That, terrible, forty seconds of incredible violence on a deserted crossroads around 5:28 am. The investigators proceeded to zooms, to slow motion, without making it possible to affirm with absolute certainty the role of each one. In the fray, so studied, it is a rain of blows. Younes has a knife in his hand. He claims to have struggled, to have aimed at the legs with his blade. It will touch Adrien Perez's chest. His younger brother will give him, before leaving and claiming victory, a blow that some consider fatal.

Younes gets rid of the knife, the two will surrender to the gendarmes a few dozen hours later.

At the end of two weeks of trial and nearly ten hours of deliberation, the Assize Court of Isère did not accept the homicidal intention, contrary to what the prosecution had pleaded to claim twenty years of criminal imprisonment.

“It's a decision that seems absolutely right to me,” responded Guillaume Faure, lawyer for Younes El Habib.

The lawyer for the third convict, Bernard Ripert, immediately announced his intention to appeal.

Advocate General Jacques Dallest had only requested a one-year suspended sentence against his client.

Justice

Adrien Perez murder suspect soon released

Miscellaneous

A thousand people parade in Grenoble in tribute to Adrien, killed by a stab

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