prison sentences of eight to sixteen years

Sentences of eight to sixteen years in prison were pronounced Friday, July 6 against Houssame Hatri – on the run – Ladje Haidara and Abdou Salam Koita, persecuted for kidnapping, extortion, violence aggravated, criminal conspiracy and rape for one of them. She also sentenced both accomplices to five and six years in prison. The Assize Court of Val-de-Marne in Créteil recognized the aggravating circumstance of anti-Semitism in the choice of their victims during the badault of Jonathan B. and Laurine C. She declared Ladje Haidara guilty of rape. 19659003] Attorney General Christine Laï had requested the day before the sentences of eight to twenty years, describing the attackers of "wolves" who evolved in this neighborhood, where lives a large part of the Jewish community of Creteil. For the prosecution, there was no doubt that the attackers had chosen their victims because of their religion.

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1 ^er December 2014 at noon, Jonathan and Laurine, aged 21 and 20, were alone in the apartment of Jonathan's parents when we rang the bell. Jonathan was in the bathroom, Laurine had opened. Three masked and armed men, who had tracked before, entered, tied them up and separated them. One put a cannon in Jonathan's mouth to confess "where is the money" shouting to him: "We know that your father is Jewish, he goes out with a round on the head and he has a black Mercedes ". The anti-Semitic remarks had been made by only one of them, Houssame Hatri – on the run – and against whom the heaviest sentence was pronounced. "It's for my brothers in Palestine" Did he say playing knives on Jonathan, tied to the ground, face down, before destroying all the Jewish symbols hung in the apartment?

"They are not anti-Semites, they are ignorant"

They had demanded that their victims give them their credit card number – "if it's not the right one, we'll stumble", sneering at the terror they inspired them. "Would you like your girlfriend to suck Black's dick?" Because my friend, he's serious hungry. Jonathan, his head pressed against the floor in the living room, had heard Laurine's voice in the room saying "no" . Left alone with her, one of the men had lifted her T-shirt and entered it with a finger.

"To say that" Jews have money "is a prejudice, but it's not criminal. You have to fight it by going to schools. But racial prejudice, this human imbecility, becomes a prejudiced act when it is used to target its victims ", observed the general counsel. As an echo, the lawyer of the League against Racism and Antisemitism (LICRA) civil party at the trial, Dorothée Bisaccia-Bernstein, had indicated to the address of the court and jurors: "We do not ask you not to say that the defendants are anti-Semitic. The only question you are asked is: were their victims targeted because they were Jewish?

"They are not anti-Semites, they are ignorant. They are immersed in a gross ignorance " responded Marie ^e Marie Dosé, in defense of one of the aggressors, denouncing " an antisemitic qualification decided at ministerial level " less forty-eight hours after the fact, and the "outrageous mediatization" that ensued.

"France is not that"

At the bar of the court of Seated, Jonathan B. and Laurine C. had recounted the one-and-a-half-hour aggression that rocked their lives. "You may be solid, formed, it explodes all around, Jonathan said. The sentimental life, the professional life. You do not feel safe anymore, ever. After that, I lost my job. I have seen psys, I always have nightmares. That's what I want the accused to understand. They badault people who are the same age and ruin their lives. We moved to a place we did not choose, an ultra secure residence with cameras and alarms. The young woman, still very fragile, had asked to be heard in camera.

Since then, the couple has separated. "We did not really know how to talk to each other, actually. A word was suddenly revive, had entrusted Jonathan. For Laurine, I tell myself that it's my fault, it's me who made him leave his city of Normandy. The young woman returned to live in her home region, where she works as a maid. Jonathan is now a chauffeur of VTC (transport vehicle with driver).

He had said again:

"Burglaries, I made hundreds as a policeman, I had never seen like that. That's when I realized that it was not a simple burglary. It's even harder to realize that you've been badaulted because you're Jewish. France is not that.

The accused have all denied the anti-Semitic character of their actions. But while one of them was questioned about the multiple incidents that have riddled his detention for four years, he replied: "The director of the prison is Jewish, she tells me about this case. " " How do you know ? had asked him for the LICRA's lawyer. " I recognize him in his eyes", he had answered.