Eric W., 21, was discovered by police lying in a garbage room in a building in Belleville on November 22, 2019.
The two main defendants in the death of a young man in 2019 in the basement of a building in the Belleville district of Paris were sentenced to fifteen and eighteen years in prison, AFP has learned. Saturday with their lawyers.
They had been on trial since Tuesday by the Paris Assize Court for the death of Eric W., 21, discovered by the police lying in a garbage room in a building in Belleville, November 22, 2019. Partially undressed, with a wound on the level of the head, he had died of a hemorrhage shortly after the arrival of help.
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Both men were found guilty of “arrest, kidnapping and forcible confinement followed by death“, specified to AFP Me Philippe Sarda, who defended Anthony Cilpa, condemned to fifteen years of imprisonment. Jean Marengo, designated by the prosecution as the one who held “the major role” in L'”punitive expedition“, He was sentenced to eighteen years in prison. The Advocate General had respectively requested seventeen and twenty years of imprisonment against the two men, aged 26.
Aggravating circumstances not considered
On the other hand, the jury did not retain the aggravating circumstance of “torture or act of barbarism“. On Friday, counsel for the two defendants argued that “there (were) no sufficient material elements for this legal qualification“.
If Jean Marengo and Anthony Cilpa recognized the violence, motivated by a financial dispute, they had denied any “sequestration“. According to them, they were unaware of the seriousness of the victim’s injuries, or of the fact that she could not leave the cellar once the door was slammed. Jean Marengo’s lawyer, Me Yassine Bouzrou, told AFP that his client “think about the possibility of a call“, considering that the court had lacked impartiality during the hearing and denouncing an investigation “sloppy“.
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A third defendant, Bouyé T., 21, was sentenced to four years in prison, two of which were suspended, for “no assistance to the person in danger», «a measured penalty“, according to his lawyer, Me Olivia Ronen. The prosecution had asked for the same sentence, welcoming the consistency of the young man’s statements, but stressing that he had seen “live” the “Danger“in which the victim was and had”chose to stay“, then to go out with his friends during the evening, without calling the emergency services.
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