A 29-year-old man was sentenced to nine years in prison for beating a father to death on September 28, 2019, behind the Esso service station in Villeneuve-Saint-Georges (Val-de-Marne).
As Le Parisien
reports
, the Assize Court concluded on Thursday that the accused was guilty.
His friend was sentenced to two years in prison, including one year, for complicity.
A racist insult as a trigger?
The reasons for the aggression of the Sri Lankan, who came to France for the funeral of his aunt, remain unclear after the trial, indicates the Ile-de-France daily.
The main convict did not really speak about what prompted him to attack the individual he met the same evening with a baseball bat.
“I never wanted to kill him”, he only pleaded.
The Advocate General denounced the "problems of impulsivity and the relationship to alcohol" of the author of the homicide.
That evening, the victim of the altercation was very heavily alcoholic, with 3 grams of alcohol in his blood.
A racial slur against the attacker's friend could be the cause of the brawl.
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