Reading:‘Basically, it was a blond man with blue eyes who shot an Algerian’ – Young French police officer rotting in prison for 15 months after shooting Algerian migrant who broke into his grandmother’s garage
A man living in an asylum accommodation has been convicted by the Tübingen Regional Court for pushing a male acquaintance out of a window and raping him, an incident that was captured by a surveillance camera. The 30-year-old man has been sentenced to 11 years in prison for aggravated assault and rape.
The incident date back to November 2024 in the city of Reutlingen and involved the 30-year-old man was drinking alcohol and smoking marijuana with the victim inside an asylum accommodation.
The two men reportedly began arguing with one another, when the defendant pushed him, according to the victim. The man fell seven meters out of the window (approximately 22 feet), according to a report from SWR.
The victim was critically injured on the ground when the asylum seeker came outside, pulled down his pants, and then raped him. A surveillance camera captured the rape.
Pedestrians eventually arrived and began shouting for help, with one of them striking the rapist with a handbag. However, this did not deter the man from continuing to rape the injured victim, according to a judge, who cited the shocking details in his verdict.
The prosecutors in the case demanded 12 years, while the defense attorneys argued for an acquittal, saying the rape could not be proven.
The suspect has no prior convictions but the judge stated that the man has no mental illness or addiction issues that could have mitigated the sentence. Even though the defendant was on drugs at the time of the incident, they were not a significant amount. The judge ruled the man acted “deliberately.” The migrant also did not care that the man was seriously injured or that witnesses were trying to stop him.
‘Basically, it was a blond man with blue eyes who shot an Algerian’ – Young French police officer rotting in prison for 15 months after shooting Algerian migrant who broke into his grandmother’s garage
Officer Éric G. has had his request to be released while in pre-trial detention denied a total of seven times, but there may be racist motivations behind efforts to keep him in prison
A 26-year-old French police officer, Éric G., has been imprisoned for 15 months in pre-trial detention for shooting an illegal Algerian migrant to death after the man broke into his 94-year-old grandmother's garage in Bobigny. His request to be released before his trial has been denied a total of seven times.
A 26-year-old French police officer, Éric G., has been imprisoned for 15 months in pre-trial detention for shooting an illegal Algerian migrant to death after the man broke into his 94-year-old grandmother’s garage in Bobigny in Seine-Saint-Denis, one of the most multicultural neighborhoods in Paris.
All of Éric G.’s requests to be released from pre-trial detention have been systematically denied — rejected a total of seven times. The officer’s lawyer indicates that the officer is being persecuted by the judge because he is a White man who shot an Algerian.
“Basically, it was a blond man with blue eyes who shot an Algerian,” said Éric G.’s lawyer, Laurent-Franck Lienard.
Remarkably, the case has not even gone to trial, well over a year after the officer shot the Algerian man to death. However, the officer remains incarcerated in extreme conditions.
The officer’s lawyer dismissed the court’s main argument for continued detention—the risk of recurrence—as nonsensical:
“The main argument [for continued detention] is the risk of recurrence. As if he were going to find himself tomorrow morning in his grandmother’s garden with his service weapon, in front of another squatter. It makes no sense,” Lienard stated. He also rejected the hypothesis of his client pressuring the civil party, denouncing the situation as “a profound injustice” rooted in political bias.
On Saturday, June 29, 2024, police officer Éric G., a 26-year-old, shot and killed Slimani, who had previous arrests on his record, including for illegal cigarette sales.
Éric G. maintains he was acting in self-defense.
The sequence of events began around 6:00 a.m. when Éric’s mother alerted him to suspicious noises at his elderly grandmother’s house, following an incident from the day before in which someone was trying to force open the garage door.
Éric G. was off-duty at the time of this incident. He said he took his service weapon and went to the house. He said that he believed his grandmother might be prone to hallucinations, which is why he did not want to call emergency services right away.
In a report written by Éric G. after the incident, he described the situation when he first arrived.
“Arriving at his home, I put on my police armband, climbed over the fence, and headed towards the garage, the area that had been damaged and squatted the day before,” reads the report.
The garage, a small outbuilding, contained the individual, Amar Slimani, visibly asleep.
Éric, who was off-duty but wearing his police armband, contacted 17 (the police emergency number) after confirming the man’s presence. He stated, “I announced my position, told him he was being arrested for trespassing, and told him to stay calm, with which he initially seemed to cooperate,” in his report. While on the phone, the situation escalated.
According to Éric, the suspect became increasingly hostile. The man “became increasingly uncooperative and ended up confronting me in a very provocative and threatening manner.” Éric drew his telescopic baton, issuing a final warning:
“I gave him my final order, pointing with my left hand toward the back of the garage. And brandishing the telescopic baton in my right hand, I told him in a strong and firm tone to move away and back off.”
The police officer claims that after a brief stare-down, Slimani grabbed what he mistook for a metal sledgehammer, later identified as a caulking gun, and armed himself.
“He had won the balance of power,” Éric stated in his report.
🚨A French anti-crime officer was beaten savagely by a group of thugs in the French city of Tourcoing.
Spectators watched on and filmed the brutal assault.
He suffered severe injuries and remains hospitalized.
Fearing for his life, Éric said that he tried to flee but realized he was cornered, as the man was chasing him:
“I immediately made the decision to flee toward the street. During this escape, I realized he was chasing me and that I could no longer escape.”
Éric drew his service firearm, turned, and fired seven times, hitting Slimani five times. The victim died shortly after, despite Éric’s attempt to administer first aid.
In his report, Éric described his immediate actions: “My priority is to help him. I place his body in the lateral safety position and take his pulse: I feel movement. […] I try as best I can to apply what I was taught in police school and during continuing training regarding self-defense. I think the individual is alive but unconscious. I call 17 again to request medical assistance and to be guided. I am still alone.”
Prosecutor initially recommended not to prosecute
Éric G. was immediately placed in police custody and subsequently in pretrial detention, against the initial advice of the prosecutor’s office. Fifteen months later, despite guarantees for his release, including offers of employment and housing outside the department, every request has been rejected.
His mother, Michelle, expressed her despair: “He needed people to welcome him outside the department and a promise of employment. Well, there are two families waiting for him and two employers ready to put him to work!” she swore.
She questioned the severity of his detention: “Why don’t they let him go out with an electronic bracelet? Why are they treating him as if he were the worst serial killer?”
She added: “My son shot to avoid dying, not to kill! What’s the point of persecuting him like this?”
National Rally backs officer
The Algerian’s family is claiming that the Algerian man, who broke into the grandmother’s garage, is the victim of a “racist crime.”
Clearly, the case has become political, with the National Rally backing the officer. Yassine Bouzrou, the lawyer for Amar Slimani’s relatives, confirmed this reality, saying, “We believe it more than ever, now that we know the family has the support of the National Rally.”
The psychological assessment of Éric G. is now being used against him. The report claims he is “rigid” psychologically and expressed little sympathy for the Algerian man.
The lawyer for the Algerian is also going on the attack, saying that continued pretrial detention is “the least we can do.”
The laywer claims that the putty gun did not represent a weapon and that the seven shots fired by the officer showed his determination to kill the Algerian. He said Éric G.’s version of events featured “numerous lies” and is “completely contrary to the truth.” He said that Slimani may have simply been an illegal worker doing “odd jobs” for the grandmother. The officer’s lawyers vehemently deny this claim, saying that the man had no tools when he was found at the scene.
Furthermore, Éric G.’s family completely denies this claim. The officer’s mother said her family has now been destroyed and that it appears their son is the victim of revenge.
“I recognize that their family is destroyed, but what’s the point of destroying ours now? Is this revenge?” the mother asked.
Éric G.’s mother further confirmed her son is struggling in prison. In French prisons, police officers are targets and must be kept in extreme isolation.
“He has dark thoughts, it breaks my heart. He told me that if we weren’t there, he would have hanged himself already,” said Éric G.’s mother.
As for Éric G.’s grandmother, she passed away months ago. She was never told her grandson was incarcerated. This measure was taken by the family to “spare her” the pain, according to the officer’s lawyer, Lienard.
Illegal Algerian migrant accused of raping elderly woman in her Paris apartment after offering to help her with her groceries
The 34-year-old, who has lived illegally in France for nine years, denies the charge but remains in custody as investigators cite DNA evidence and video surveillance
A 34-year-old Algerian man living illegally in France appeared in court on Tuesday to face charges of raping a 79-year-old woman in her Paris apartment after meeting her in a grocery store and offering to carry her groceries home.
The incident occurred in April 2024 in the 20th arrondissement of the French capital. The suspect has been remanded in custody since that time.
According to prosecutors, cited by Le Parisien, the man met the victim on April 14, 2024, around 6:30 p.m. at her local grocery store, where he offered his assistance. The elderly woman accepted his help and invited him in for a glass of wine. Prosecutors allege that he then began to touch her and raped her despite her pleas for him to stop. He reportedly left the apartment afterward, telling her they might see each other again.
The elderly woman called the police that same evening to report a sexual assault. When officers visited her the next day, the suspect allegedly phoned her home. A police officer who answered heard him identify himself under a false name. DNA collected from the victim’s chest and clothing later matched the suspect following his arrest.
During questioning, the accused initially denied any sexual contact but later admitted to “sexual gestures,” insisting there had been no penetration. His defense attorney, Julien Zanatta, argues that the case rests largely on the testimony of a vulnerable woman. “When she first called police, she described a sexual assault, and as time went on, the allegations escalated to rape,” Zanatta said. “Her daughter and stepson have said she suffers from cognitive disorders and has previously made false accusations against others.”
“I did not rape this woman,” the man told the court on Tuesday. A mechanic by trade, he has lived in Seine-Saint-Denis for nine years without legal status. He has no prior criminal record, and a psychiatric assessment found no sign of mental illness. Investigators, however, described him as “a man who lives in constant concealment,” with no official address, no registered job, and a drinking problem.
The defense maintains that the DNA evidence only confirms his client’s presence at the apartment and, at most, limited sexual contact, not rape.
Sexual assaults in France by foreign nationals, particularly involving elderly victims, have increased at a disturbing rate in recent years.
Earlier this month, a Guinean migrant living illegally in France was sentenced to 12 years in prison for the rape of an 83-year-old woman during a daytime burglary at her home in La Penne-sur-Huveaune last year.
In September last year, a convicted rapist from Guadeloupe was handed a 20-year prison sentence for the attempted rape of a 102-year-old resident of a nursing home in Rouen.
Specifically, when it comes to Algerians, most criminals are not deported back to their home country after serving their sentences. Remix News previously reported back in 2022, after the murder of 12-year-old Lola by an Algerian migrant with a deportation order, that just 22 of the 7,731 Algerians set for deportation between July and January 2021 were returned.
A Syrian bus driver is on trial in Germany, accused of attempting to murder his former partner and their infant son by setting fire to her apartment while they were inside.
At the Munich Regional Court, prosecutors alleged that Abdulrahman K., 31, acted out of anger over €367 a month in child support payments.
According to the indictment, Abdulrahman K. crept into the stairwell of the apartment building one evening in March 2024, poured gasoline through a crack in the door of his ex-partner Jenny G.’s flat, and ignited it.
Jenny G., 31, told the court that she woke to an explosion and escaped through the flames carrying her 1-year-old son. She suffered burns to her face and arm, while the child was unharmed. The fire caused €62,000 in damage and rendered the apartment uninhabitable.
“The shock still runs deep,” she told the court, as cited by Bild. “I have anxiety attacks, constant nightmares. My ex wanted to burn me and my son.”
The defendant has admitted to starting the fire but denied intending to kill. “I didn’t want to kill anyone,” he said in court, claiming that he had five liters of gasoline but only poured out a glass in front of the door. He added, “Family is the most important thing to me.”
Prosecutors reject this, saying he planned to kill both mother and child to escape his financial obligations. At the time of the attack, he was reportedly €1,700 in arrears on maintenance payments, burdened with €110,000 in debt, and earning around €2,000 a month.
The couple met in 2023, and Jenny G. became pregnant shortly after. Prosecutors say Abdulrahman K. showed little interest in the child after the relationship ended and became enraged when ordered to pay child support.
He faces life imprisonment if convicted of attempted murder.
🚨A French anti-crime officer was beaten savagely by a group of thugs in the French city of Tourcoing.
