One of the assaults was committed at Dinant station.
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He must respond to several attacks, including one with a racist tone.
The 25-year-old young man who appeared on opposition this Wednesday morning before the Dinant criminal court seems to have calmed down. But when he was still in school in a Dinant establishment in 2015 and 2016, it was rather “a boss who had his habits in the station district, who fought with his comrades and stirred up trouble”, said his lawyer.
This boss has committed several acts of violence. Some of which are racist. He had a new student, of foreign origin, in his sights. His head did not return to him and a first altercation took place in the schoolyard. A teacher intervened to separate them. He received a nudge. Unintentional, he said. “He was behind me, I hadn’t seen him.”
This new student has still taken for his grade over the weeks. In addition to harassing him, the boss slapped him in a supermarket and later hit him with a baseball bat near Dinant station, insulting him as a “dirty Arab”. “I have no problem with strangers. I was at the station that day when he arrived with several of his friends. The situation escalated and they had objects. I defended myself as best I could”, said the defendant. The president nevertheless clarified that when he struck with the baseball bat he had just recovered from his mother’s car, he was no longer threatened.
This student is not the only one to have suffered the wrath of the boss. “Yes, I punched someone else during a training session in Dinant. We had an altercation in the kitchen. He looked for me again at Dinant station and wanted to jump me on it. I defended myself.” Finally, a neighbor of his father was threatened with a knife.
The defense argued for a work sentence, considering that since the time of the events, things have changed. He would not deserve the 30 months in prison pronounced by default, in November 2018.
Judgment on February 23.
