A teenager sentenced to eight years in prison – Liberation
A 16 -year -old adolescent was sentenced this Wednesday, May 28 by the Children’s Court of Châteauroux (Indre) to eight years in prison for Wednesday, for Wednesday to The murder of Matisse15 years old, killed several stabs in April 2024 in this city. He was also sentenced to fifteen years of sociojudicial follow -up. The defendant, a minor of Afghan nationality in a regular situation arrived in childhood in Châteauroux with his mother, had been tried since Monday in camera for having killed Matisse following a fight caused by « A rap battle » On April 27, 2024, according to the victim’s father.
The young person accused then went to his home seized a knife and then returned, accompanied by his mother, giving up several strokes of the teenager, one had reached the heart. The court retained a « Alteration of discernment » of the author at the time of the facts, which reduces the sentence. Due to the minority excuse, the maximum sentence was fifteen years in prison, explained the public prosecutor of Châteauroux, David Marcat.
The accused’s mother, aged 37 at the time of the events, was also charged and placed under judicial supervision. The latter would have « Asséné from slaps to the victim »according to the Bourges prosecutor’s office, which has seized the file, and must be « Soon tried before the criminal court for the facts qualified as violence on vulnerable person without incapacity ». At the end of the trial, the defendant’s mother left the court under a concert of insults, supervised by the police. She had to turn back and be exfiltrated by car, according to AFP journalists on the spot.
The trial took place behind closed doors, surrounded by a reinforced security device to avoid any overflow: a « Perimeter of tranquility » Screws put in place on the order of the prefecture condemned access to the court, before which police officers filled the entries. Justified measures for « Guarantee the serenity of the debates »consequences of the tensions that punctuated the months preceding the trial.
The Afghan nationality of the accused and his mother had indeed gave rise to violent controversies, right -wing and far -right political leaders notably calling the government to harden its migration policy.
The tension had mounted a notch in May 2024, when a former magistrate of the Bourges prosecutor’s office had been accused, wrongly, of having released the accused, to the virgin criminal record but implicated in two other cases. He had been placed under judicial supervision for thefts of theft with violence committed the same year. The speed of the investigation of the trial, carried out within a very short time, was justified in particular by the pre -trial detention of one year « Without possible extension » From the accused given his age, said David Marcat.
The murder of Matisse had caused considerable emotion in his hometown and beyond. Some 8,000 people had paraded in the streets of Châteauroux within days after his death, and around 2,000 attended the ceremony in his memory, a few days later. On the facades of shops and windows of the buildings of Châteauroux, photos and drawings of otter (in reference to the nickname of the young Matisse) are still visible.
