Marc Scott Foé, 22, son of the late Cameroonian footballer Marc-Vivien Foé, was sentenced Wednesday, June 6, 2018 to five years of imprisonment by the Assize Court of Lyon, for robbery with weapons and kidnapping.
Involved alongside him in the assault of a priest at his home on November 28, 2015 in Genay (Rhone), was Sofiane Bardot, 20, was sentenced to the same length as co-author of the sequestration, but he was later acquitted of the count of voluntary violence with weapon. The prosecutor Vincent Le Pannerer had claimed twelve years of criminal imprisonment against Sofiane Bardot, and eight years against Marc Foé.
The pardon granted to the two accused by Father Luc Biquez was thought to probably explain the leniency of the verdict. "I can only hope that you will find a more coherent and upright path, as far as I am concerned, I do not blame you for it, I hope you can take real awareness of it and not just with easy words ", said the priest of Genay Tuesday at the helm, turning to the two defendants.
Two and a half years ago, this churchman had been attacked while returning to his presbytery. The two assailants, who claimed to be unaware of their victim's priesthood, were looking for a safe. Handcuffed, his hands behind his back, the monk had been punched with the butt of a pistol. The scene lasted at least an hour and a half, according to investigators of the gendarmerie. The two attackers had been put to flight by an alarm, embroidering some collectibles as booty.
Faced with his family and his victim, Marc Foé acknowledged the violence inflicted on the priest. After having denied all along the judicial investigation, Sofiane Bardot also ended up admitting her presence, but only for the search of the apartment.
This conviction comes to end three days of trial largely marked by a debate around the course of Marc Foé. His father, struck down in the field by a heart attack "lost his life in front of the cameras of the whole world". "He was 8. This event has changed his career," said his lawyer, Alexandre Plantevin. Born in Lille, while his father played at RC Lens, the young man was waved from one country to another, following the career of the famous defensive midfielder of the Indomitable Lions of Cameroon. A childhood that rocked after the death of the player at the Stade Gerland, June 26, 2003, during a meeting between Cameroon and Colombia during the Confederations Cup.
According to his defender and an expert psychologist, Marc Foé also suffers the consequences of a serious assault baseball bat in England, which is worth to wear a titanium prosthesis instead of the bones of the forehead. The young man, who lived at the home of his mother Marie-Louise, near Neuville-sur-Saone, north of Lyon, had also committed several crimes in 2015. It was there that he crossed the route just as Chaotic Sofiane Bardot, born in a disadvantaged environment and abandoned by his father. Bardot had a more marked offender experience, with seven convictions in his criminal record, two of which were for aggravated violence.
"Forgiveness was granted, they were very young, it is a pain of appeasement, of hope," responded to his side Laurent Bohe, the priest's lawyer.
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Involved alongside him in the assault of a priest at his home on November 28, 2015 in Genay (Rhone), was Sofiane Bardot, 20, was sentenced to the same length as co-author of the sequestration, but he was later acquitted of the count of voluntary violence with weapon. The prosecutor Vincent Le Pannerer had claimed twelve years of criminal imprisonment against Sofiane Bardot, and eight years against Marc Foé.
The pardon granted to the two accused by Father Luc Biquez was thought to probably explain the leniency of the verdict. "I can only hope that you will find a more coherent and upright path, as far as I am concerned, I do not blame you for it, I hope you can take real awareness of it and not just with easy words ", said the priest of Genay Tuesday at the helm, turning to the two defendants.
Two and a half years ago, this churchman had been attacked while returning to his presbytery. The two assailants, who claimed to be unaware of their victim's priesthood, were looking for a safe. Handcuffed, his hands behind his back, the monk had been punched with the butt of a pistol. The scene lasted at least an hour and a half, according to investigators of the gendarmerie. The two attackers had been put to flight by an alarm, embroidering some collectibles as booty.
Faced with his family and his victim, Marc Foé acknowledged the violence inflicted on the priest. After having denied all along the judicial investigation, Sofiane Bardot also ended up admitting her presence, but only for the search of the apartment.
This conviction comes to end three days of trial largely marked by a debate around the course of Marc Foé. His father, struck down in the field by a heart attack "lost his life in front of the cameras of the whole world". "He was 8. This event has changed his career," said his lawyer, Alexandre Plantevin. Born in Lille, while his father played at RC Lens, the young man was waved from one country to another, following the career of the famous defensive midfielder of the Indomitable Lions of Cameroon. A childhood that rocked after the death of the player at the Stade Gerland, June 26, 2003, during a meeting between Cameroon and Colombia during the Confederations Cup.
According to his defender and an expert psychologist, Marc Foé also suffers the consequences of a serious assault baseball bat in England, which is worth to wear a titanium prosthesis instead of the bones of the forehead. The young man, who lived at the home of his mother Marie-Louise, near Neuville-sur-Saone, north of Lyon, had also committed several crimes in 2015. It was there that he crossed the route just as Chaotic Sofiane Bardot, born in a disadvantaged environment and abandoned by his father. Bardot had a more marked offender experience, with seven convictions in his criminal record, two of which were for aggravated violence.
"Forgiveness was granted, they were very young, it is a pain of appeasement, of hope," responded to his side Laurent Bohe, the priest's lawyer.
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