Trial of Lionel Sess's death: a violent fight broke out in the courthouse, wounded police officers, devastated parents

Two rival gangs clashed on May 12 at Gironde's Court of Assize in the trial of Lionel's murder, killed during a shooting in 2021.

At the end of this first day of hearing of the trial around the death of Lionel Sess, violence broke out within the Court of Appeal of Bordeaux. A hallucinating and unprecedented scene that stunned lawyers and the young man's family, shot down by these clashes.

After the first day of audience on Monday in Lionel's death, 16, fighting broke out in Gironde's assize court, wounding police officers.

Actu Forces De l'Ordre A scene of unprecedented violence broke out this Monday evening in the very heart of the Cour d'Assizes de la Gironde, in the middle of the trial for the death of Lionel Sess. At the end of the first day of the hearing, a violent fight between members of the families and close to the two parties, sowing the stupor in the [...] Article Violent fight in the middle of the trial in Bordeaux: Injured policemen appeared first on…

Many of them were waiting for justice for Lionel Sess, a 16-year-old who was shot dead. But as soon as the trial was opened in Bordeaux, a violent fight broke out in the court, revealing the extreme tensions around a case already marked by rivalries between two cities: the Aubiers and Chantecrit. The post A violent fight at the opening of the trial of the accused of Lionel's death at the Aubiers appeared first on Rue89Bordeaux.

At the origin of the shooting having cost the life of young Lionel Sess on January 2, 2021, the rivalry between the districts of Aubiers and Saint-Louis Chantecrit was invited this Monday, May 12th within the very courtyard of Assizes of Bordeaux at the end of the first day of audience.