The State found responsible for “gross misconduct” after a quadruple murder in 2016


Europe 1 with AFP
, modified at

1:09 p.m., December 15, 2021

The State was deemed “responsible” for “serious misconduct” after a quadruple murder committed on Christmas night 2016 in Drôme and Vaucluse, said Wednesday the lawyer for the families of the victims. “The civil chamber of the judicial court of Valencia considered that the State had failed in the course of the events preceding the murders. It was held responsible for the gross negligence committed by officers of the judicial police”, in this case of the gendarmes, in the follow-up of the support of the presumed author of the murders, explained Me Alain Fort.

A murderous journey

Initiated by the latter, the procedure ends almost two years to the day after the decision of the investigative chamber of the Grenoble Court of Appeal, according to which the alleged perpetrator is “criminally irresponsible” because of his psychiatric condition. On December 25, 2016, Fissenou Sacko, then 23, took a train from Beauvais to Paris, then Marseille. Without ticket. After an altercation with controllers, he got off at Valence station. Very excited and making incoherent comments, he was taken away by gendarmes who then handed him over to firefighters. The latter take him to the hospital from where he escapes.

Then begins a murderous journey. At 2:45 am on December 26, 2016, he kills Paulette Guyon, 79, stabbed in her bed in Chabeuil (Drôme). Then around 5 a.m., he attacked a couple from Montvendre (Drôme). Marie-Thérèse Philibert and her husband Bernard, 65, were stabbed 27 and 23 respectively. The same day, in the parking lot of a supermarket in Orange (Vaucluse), he hit Renée Chevalier, 65, on the head with a stone, who succumbed to his injuries.

“A serious fault engaging the responsibility of the State”

“It was quite obvious that the measure to be taken was to place him in police custody. If he was in a strange state, he had to be examined by a psychiatrist and if he was not, obviously seize everything. following the public prosecutor who would have had him tried in an immediate appearance “, added Me Fort, regretting” a calamitous assessment “of the situation by the military at the time.

In its decision, the Valence Civil Chamber considers that “by refraining from resorting to a measure of constraint, necessary in view of the seriousness of the acts committed and the personality of the person concerned, the judicial police officers have committed a serious fault, engaging the responsibility of the State “.

Fissenou Sacko is interned for schizophrenia in a unit for difficult patients in Villejuif (Val-de-Marne). The Valence Civil Chamber did not award other damages to the families of the victims, the latter having already been compensated by the State.



Source link -79