Attack in Trappes: lawyers for suspect racist Kevin Tessier speak out
The lawyers of Kevin Tessier, implicated in the racist attack in Trappes on 23 October, call for judicial restraint amid public and media emotion.
The defenders of the Trappes racist suspect update the situation
On 23 October, Kevin Tessier, 39, opened fire on pedestrians who were Black and of North African origin in the streets of Trappes and La Verrière, in Yvelines. Pengo Bossio Wangi, 26, was struck by 21 projectiles and succumbed to his injuries. Other victims were also hit.
The suspect's lawyers, Me Baptiste Bellet and Eliott Amzallag, granted their first interview on this case. According to Le Figaro, they immediately perceived the corrosive dimension of the matter when they were seized of the file. The prosecutor of the national counter-terrorism office, Olivier Christen, detailed publicly the suspect's racist motivations during a press conference widely covered by the media.
"There is a time for everything. For now, it is the time of emotion, of suffering for the victims and of mourning for their loved ones. That of justice is long, it will come later," declared Me Bellet. With his colleague, he calls for "restraint" in an investigation in its early stages, while the file is generating keen political and media interest.
Source: Le Figaro