The verdict came late in the evening. This Friday, the attackers of Amjad, a 44-year-old house painter beaten to death in December 2020 in front of the Gallieni residence in Palaiseau, were sentenced by the Essonne Assize Court to sentences ranging from 15 to 25 years of criminal imprisonment.
On December 1, 2020, around 8:40 a.m., the police and emergency services were urgently called for a man who was lying unconscious and on his back at the foot of this small, quiet residence in Essonne. The man has just been beaten up. His face and hands are covered in blood. At his feet, a baseball bat broken in two bears witness to the violence of the blows he received. Seriously injured, the victim was taken to La Pitié-Salpêtrière hospital (Paris) where she died two days later.
“They came to kill the victim”
From the first observations, the police put a name on the victim. The man’s name is Amjad. Born in Pakistan, he made a new life in France where he works as a building painter. It was actually to go to a construction site that he was in Palaiseau that morning.
During the investigation, the police will discover that his death could be revenge for the assassination of a man in Pakistan ten years earlier. If there is nothing to prove that the forty-year-old is involved, the family of the deceased is convinced of the contrary. “It’s something that was premeditated and established,” assured the former head of the judicial police at the bar. They came to kill the victim. »
Head trauma and 17 skin wounds
Equipped with baseball bats and butcher leaves, the small group gave Amjad no chance. Sprayed with tear gas, the forty-year-old was beaten and slashed with knives. During the autopsy, significant head trauma and 17 skin wounds were identified.
To identify the perpetrators, the police went back to the store where the two baseball bats had been purchased the day before. Payment by bank card, the use of video surveillance images and a precise analysis of telephony will help confuse the suspects.
