A Marseille Thai boxing champion is on trial for hitting a Nîmes resident who jumped out of a window and was seriously injured.

The Thai boxing champion tried to convince the court. He was sentenced to three years in prison. HOCINE ROUAGDIA

On June 22, a man jumped out of the first-floor window of a building on Rue de la Biche. The Marseillais assures that the dispute was not linked to drug trafficking but to an unpaid bill on the sale of a 6.35mm pistol. He assures that the Nîmes resident tried to stab him.

Drug-related fight or gun-selling dispute ?

“He tried to stand me up, it was my blood that was in the apartment, he “knocked me out”, I got angry, it made my head spin, I didn't want it to come to this”, said the defendant before the court left to deliberate in a case that took place against a backdrop of drug trafficking. The protagonists ? Two men established in the drug market who had an argument over a transaction. But while the 23-year-old defendant admits that he was placing drug dealers, he certifies that the dispute was linked to the sale of a 6.35 mm caliber pistol and not to a drug story. Suleyman Rahmoune, 23, admits to having struck people in an apartment on Rue de la Biche but he claims that he acted in self-defense against a man who stabbed him (slashes) and who allegedly tried to stab him in the throat.

6.35mm pistol sold for 800 euros, the victim allegedly paid only 500 euros

The dispute? He allegedly sold a pistol to the future victim who allegedly paid only 500 euros out of the 800 initially planned. The defendant explains “that he bought the weapon from gypsies” and had brought her back from Marseille where he usually works in construction with his father and that he was not even getting his money back by leaving her for 500 euros. He explained to President Perez that the business had declined and that he had actually turned to placing lookouts or drug dealers. The fight ? He admitted to having punched the victim several times but in response to her aggression. Injured, the individual threw himself out of the first floor window. Result: serious injuries and 90 days of temporary incapacity for work and an investigation opened at the police station since June 22, the date of this hallucinatory scene of stabbings, punches and defenestration. The case took a new turn in recent days when the suspect who was the subject of a wanted sheet was caught as he got off the plane at Marseille airport.

“He's a dangerous person, he kidnapped someone for a bad look”

This Monday in the prisoner's box, he repeated to the judges that he was violent to save his skin. “Yanis still kidnapped someone for a bad look, he's a dangerous person. I hit him to scare him as much as possible. Yanis, he's not all rosy. I am surprised that he was not prosecuted for attempted murder”. Philippe Ughetto, the deputy public prosecutor, retorted: “You do not behave like a victim, why did you not go to the police station to file a complaint”?”.

"He ’slapped me”, I saw red"

"Between us we “complain” not, I still called to check on him after", underlines the defendant. "Why did he go through the window ?".

« I don't know, you have to ask him ». The public prosecutor does not believe in the thesis of a fight on the sidelines of a weapon sale but in that of a trap against a backdrop of drug trafficking. The defendant certifies that no and that the bosses of the Jonquilles and Mas de Mingue deal points "are two different bosses". The blows ? The man who jumped out of the window ? "He ’slapped me”, I saw red, I punched him five times".
The defendant tries to convince the president that he escaped death and acted to defend himself against a man who wanted to kill him. The magistrate notes that the victim, like the perpetrator, also has traces of stab wounds. “I wanted to take the knife from his hands, I injured myself. If I had wanted to kill him, I knew where to plant him to make him lose his life in 30 seconds", the young man replies. President Perez indicates that the latter has been convicted three times for drug cases and that he was Paca champion of Thai boxing and that he has a CAP in electricity. "I'm sorry for Yanis, I didn't want him to jump out the window".

“For the prosecution, the defendant speaks like a thug”

For the magistrate of the prosecution, the defendant “speaks like a thug […] three weeks before the events, he was at a deal point". The prosecution does not believe the version served by the young man but that of violence linked to the turf war of drug trafficking. For the possession of a weapon and the violence and blows, he requests four years in prison. The defense lawyer, Me Virremouneix-Graffin, reiterates in detail the theory of blows delivered in self-defense. And the defendant tries to explain that the victim had also taken “balloons (of nitrous oxide) and drunk quite a bit”. He was sentenced to three years in prison with a warrant of committal and a ban on possessing weapons.

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