facts. Full return of summer vacation, tires, pallets, trees, trash burning on the A1. Result: this axis, one of the busiest in Europe, is cut off for 24 hours. For this, a group of Travellers means to pressure the court.
Four days earlier, a man of 73 years was killed with gunfire a woman of 19, his nine-month girl and her stepfather. A policeman alerted by the shots had also been shot. The tragedy had taken place in a camp occupied by the community of Travellers in Roye, in the Amount , a few kilometers of the future location of the blockage.
Justice backtracked
the refusal by a judge of freedoms let out of prison the son of a victim and a close so they could attend the funeral then triggers the anger of some members of the community of travelers. Would follow the facts that hold the attention of justice.
On August 29, the day after the beginning of the blockade, the Amiens Court of Appeal invalidates the first decision: the two individuals therefore have an exit permission. Immediately, the dam is raised. Three months passed and 23 November, 13 people were placed in custody, 12 of which will be referred to the criminal court of Amiens.
Right up to the plate
blocking the A1 and especially the judicial reversal on furlough gave a polemical dimension to the case. Justice and State have in particular been accused of having yielded to the violence for the first and not to be acted fairly forceful way for the second.
“Such an event, such blocking, are unacceptable, and in every way contrary to the rule of law”, had won Xavier Bertrand then party candidate Republicans regional in Nord-Pas-de-Calais / Picardy. Marine Le Pen on his side had tweeted: “blocked Highway A1: once again exceeded a government, powerless, unworthy!”
The feeling of being discredited
to me Jerome Crépin, counsel for three of the defendants, the state has played its part. “[He] has understood that the judiciary was wrong,” he says. After the tragedy, “the whole community took it to the penalty” to deprive some of its members funeral. “They said, we do not leave [prison] because it is the community of travelers,” he said. “There was a sense that we, gypsies, when we do something, it hits us first, and when we are victims, we do not occupy a lot of us,” added Mr. Stephano Daquo, lawyer two other defendants.
Both boards are a comparison with the movement of the Red Caps in Britain in 2013. The multiple impairments and projectiles towards the authorities had then led that five summonses in court.
“It does not put pressure on justice and on the State by blocking a highway”
For Bernard Farret, prosecutor of Amiens, justice does its job. “It does not put pressure on justice and on the State by blocking a highway,” he insists. Especially, according to the magistrate that “those prosecuted are not all relatives of the victims.” The civil party side, there are the motorway company Sanef -which assured losing half a million euros in affaire- but also a local public authority as well as fast food and supermarket . It is the latter two that pallets and tires were stolen.
Sign of the case is complex, the trial, originally scheduled January 12, was referred by the President . It wanted the debates be held over two days
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