Sentenced in 2018 to seven and a half years in prison, Marin's attacker was released a few days ago, thanks to a remission.
In November 2016, Marin Sauvajon was left for dead in Lyon after defending a couple attacked by a gang of young people for kissing.
The aggressor's former lawyer believes that the decision of the sentence enforcement judge is "perfectly logical".
A decision that is difficult to pass.
But Marin's family did not wish to react, for fear of making remarks which could be "of a certain violence".
According to France 3, the attacker of the young man has just been released from detention, less than four and a half years after his conviction.
In May 2018, the person concerned was sentenced to seven and a half years in prison – much less than the fourteen years demanded by the Advocate General – for having violently beaten Marin with crutches on the skull.
The scene took place one afternoon in November 2016 at the Part-Dieu station in Lyon.
Then 20 years old, the young Marin intervened when a gang of kids began to annoy and insult a couple who were kissing at the bus stop.
One of them, revengeful, had then followed the student on board the vehicle in order to hit him from behind.
The savagery of the blows had plunged the victim into a coma for three weeks.
Six years later, Marin has retained heavy consequences.
18 month remission
A minor at the time of the incident, the attacker is now 23 years old.
He won a temporary work contract after having "invested in detention in his schooling", according to his ex-lawyer Anne Guillemaut.
In view of his elements, the boy therefore benefited from a remission of sentence of eighteen months allowing him to regain his freedom from the beginning of October.
“It makes perfect sense.
He has largely served his sentence by remaining in prison for six full years, ”said Anne Guillemaut to France 3. His release is however accompanied by the obligation to wear an electronic bracelet and his hours of release remain linked to his work.
In 2020, the person concerned had already made a request for early release, which had outraged Marin's family as well as the Lyon public prosecutor's office, which appealed the decision of the sentence enforcement judge.
The court of appeal then rejected the detainee's request, forcing him to extend his stay in prison.
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