Overview

• The hearing is set for September 26 before the correctional court in Châteauroux, according to prosecutor David Marcat.
• Authorities plan a large security deployment around the Palais de justice due to risks of confrontations observed at the previous trial.
• The charge, defined as violence against a vulnerable person without certified incapacity (ITT), reflects that the alleged blows did not cause the death.
• The defendant’s son, now 16 and an Afghan national in regular status, was sentenced in May to eight years by the juvenile court for delivering the fatal knife blows.
• Investigators say the April 27, 2024 attack followed a dispute after a rap battle, with the teen returning with a knife alongside his mother, an event that later prompted marches of about 8,000 and a 2,000‑person memorial.