A bit of greater than three years after the occasions, the trial of the coed who stabbed his teacher, February 22, 2023, in the course of class on the Saint-Thomas d’Aquin personal highschool in Saint-Jean-de-Luz (Pyrénées-Atlantiques) opens this Tuesday at Pau.
The listening to for homicide will happen behind closed doorways because the accused was aged 16 on the time when he fatally stabbed Agnes Lassallehis 53-year-old Spanish instructor. He had hidden the bladed weapon in a roll of paper towel earlier than hanging him within the chest, in entrance of a petrified class.
An adolescent with a really fragile psychological profile
Whereas in police custody, {the teenager} had talked about “a bit voice that speaks to him, a egocentric, manipulative, selfish being, who incites him to do evil and who would have advised to him, the day earlier than, to commit an assassination”, reported the prosecution. Throughout the investigation, two of the three skilled opinions dominated within the route of felony accountability of the younger man whereas the third went in the sense of an abolition of discernment.
“The discernment of the accused will probably be on the coronary heart of the debates,” estimates Maître Thierry Sagardoytho, lawyer for the accused. The file comprises three skilled opinions with diametrically opposed conclusions. » He additionally intends to query the medical assist of the very fragile younger man, who had tried to finish his life by ingesting remedy, in October 2022. On the time of the occasions, he was taking medical remedy for psychological issues. “Was the care previous to the tragedy passable? Might she have averted it? », asks the protection lawyer. Described as a loner, {the teenager} was additionally mentioned to have been the sufferer of harassment in his earlier institution.
Within the room, the companion of Agnès Lassalle, who had moved public opinion by performing a few dance movements in front of the coffin in honor of the victimkeen about dance, ought to comply with the debates. They’ll proceed till April 24 with the hope, for the civil events, of understanding the explanations for such motion.
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“The closed-door debates will probably be painful for everybody. Everybody retains in thoughts the reminiscence of Agnès Lassalle,” feedback Maître Thierry Sagardoytho. The legal professionals for the civil events didn’t reply to requests from 20 Minutes. Forward of the trial, the sufferer’s former companion, Stéphane Voisin, told France 2 that he hoped “solely to see the accused in order that, for as soon as, he faces his duties”, wishing “the popularity of a gesture, not less than, the popularity of this horrible gesture”.
{The teenager} tried formurder of his instructor faces thirty years of felony imprisonment.
