2023-06-20 18:44:14
The punch was voluntary but had dramatic consequences beyond Matthieu Lassau’s intention. This 27-year-old had been tried since June 16 by the Gironde Assize Court for intentional violence resulting in death without intention to give it, failure to assist a person in danger and theft in a meeting.
The punch was voluntary but had dramatic consequences beyond Matthieu Lassau’s intention. This 27-year-old had been tried since June 16 by the Gironde Assize Court for intentional violence resulting in death without intention to give it, failure to assist a person in danger and theft in a meeting.
Mutual insults uttered? Willingness to silence an alcoholic and loud-talking man? The reason for the altercation remains unclear eight years following the facts, which occurred in front of a private club in Mérignac. The accused acknowledges that the victim fell “in KO dry”. Hit in the face on March 7, 2015, around 5:30 a.m., Farid Souiad, 44, collapsed, unconscious on the road, victim of a head trauma. He died on July 16 in a rehabilitation center.
Me Dominique Delthil defended Matthieu Lassau, the author of the punch which made the victim fall to the ground on March 7, 2015.
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“Abyssal Pain”
Lawyer for the civil party, Me Philippe Courtois underlined the “abysmal pain” felt by the victim’s two brothers. The siblings, orphan of father and mother, were very united. Suffering from lung cancer, one of the two brothers also stopped fighting when Farid Souiad died and died in turn on August 3, 2015, leaving the last of the family alone and inconsolable.
On the day of the incident, the police were quick to arrest two young people who had fled when the firefighters arrived: Matthieu Lassau and a friend, who had come drunk and were perched on a bicycle that did not belong to them. The friend, now 35, was also tried by the Gironde Assize Court this week. He had to answer for non-assistance to person in danger and recurrence of theft in a meeting.
“For a conviction for non-assistance to a person in danger to be founded in law, there must be an imminent danger”
The Advocate General, Alain Pellegry required five years, including two farms suitable for conversion once morest the main defendant and ten months, including eight farms for his friend. But for the respective defense lawyers, My Dominique Delthil and Charles Dufranc, the case was far from over.
« 1 000 questions »
“This file raises 1,000 questions, starting with that of the more than indirect causal link between a punch and the death of a man and therefore the criminal qualification retained”, asks Me Charles Dufranc. For him, it is more “violence resulting in permanent disability and then, four months later, death resulting from inappropriate care”. He also pleaded for the acquittal of his client both on non-assistance to a person in danger and on the theft of a bicycle.
“For a conviction for non-assistance to a person in danger to be founded in law, there must be an imminent danger. That the person is aware of this imminent danger and that he voluntarily refrains from acting, ”recalls the lawyer. “However, in this specific case, my client was on the other side of a parked car when the shot was given, he did not see it well and the emergency services were also immediately notified by the bartender. . As for the bike, they didn’t steal it, they found it on the way and rode 8 kilometers on it, drunk. »
Both men were acquitted for failing to assist a person in danger. Matthieu Lassau was sentenced to five years, two of which he might serve in the form of house arrest under electronic surveillance. His friend was given a five-month probationary sentence.
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