Nadia Touil case: this pickpocketing which was only a sinister diversion

As she was on her way to work before dawn on December 30, 2012, Nadia Touil, who performed the function of cashier in a supermarketwas violently attacked near Bobigny. Hit in the head with an ax or a machete by his attacker, the victim had his bag stolen. However, this particularly brutal snatching was in fact only a diversion. During their investigations, the investigators recovered the videos of a surveillance camera from a retirement home. The latter had filmed a cyclist in the street, perched high on his saddle, who looked like Menouar Touil on his bicycle.

The latter is none other than the former husband of the victim. Described as brutal, authoritarian and stingy, he wanted to keep his house even though the family court judge had ordered him to leave a year ago, after he divorced his ex-wife. “I have nothing to reproach myself for, I was at home, I was sleeping“, repeated Menouar Touil during his trial, as reported The Parisian Friday, March 31, 2023. On that day, the Bobigny Assize Court condemned the pensioner to thirty years of criminal imprisonment, including twenty years of safety period, for attempting to kill his ex-wife. It was not the first time that he was in the sights of justice.

Nadia Touil case: “I would have done better to break my two legs rather than meet him”

In effect, Menouar Touil had already found himself thirty years earlier before another assize court. At the time, the ex-husband of Nadia Touil was sentenced to twenty years in prison for the murder of a companion, a transvestite, whose body had been found dismembered in the Bois de Vincennes. “How many more victims are needed for him to stop harming the people around him?“, had launched the general counsel, Yasmine Wasylyszyn, during the trial opposing him to his ex-wife. “I would have done better to break both my legs than to meet him“, had declared for her part Nadia Touil.