The mother of 18-year-old Théo Muxagata has said, “You can kill in France with impunity,” after the Senegalese migrant who fatally stabbed her son over call charges to his homeland was declared criminally irresponsible by a French court.
Ousmane Diallo, a 67-year-old Senegalese national, had been on trial since Tuesday before the Seine-et-Marne Assize Court over the stabbing which occurred on July 10, 2021. On Friday, the court ruled that he could not be held criminally responsible for his actions and ordered his involuntary hospitalization in a psychiatric facility.
The killing followed a dispute over €93.62 in additional charges for phone calls Diallo had made to Senegal. Prosecutors said the accused entered the Bouygues Telecom store in the Claye-Souilly shopping center and became enraged, stabbing Muxagata and seriously injuring another employee in the frenzied attack. A third employee was targeted but escaped unharmed.
Muxagata managed to leave the shop after being wounded but collapsed a short distance away inside the shopping center. He later died from his injuries.
The trial of Ousmane Diallo, accused of stabbing to death an 18-year-old employee in a Bouygues Telecom store following a dispute over phone charges, began at the Seine-et-Marne Assize Court in Melun on Tuesday.
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In lengthy pre-trial evaluations, Diallo was examined by three separate panels of psychiatric experts to ascertain whether or not he could be found criminally responsible for the attack. As reported by Le Figaro, two concluded that he lacked the capacity to understand or control his actions at the time of the offenses, while a third found that his judgment was impaired but suggested the Senegalese national was not suffering from a mental illness.
The court ultimately found Diallo guilty but not criminally responsible for Théo’s death, meaning he will not receive a prison sentence and will instead be sent to a psychiatric unit for treatment.
In an interview with Le Figaro, the victim’s mother expressed her devastation at the verdict.
“The past week marks the end of a long and painful process. We waited four and a half years to be told that Mr. Diallo is guilty but not responsible. It’s hard to hear and impossible to accept. Whose fault is it then? This verdict has devastated us. We’re struggling to come to terms with it; it’s a crushing blow. We feel a sense of injustice and anger. You can kill in France with impunity. Furthermore, he had already committed acts of violence in 2003; why was his residency permit renewed?” she asked.
She also disputed the psychiatric conclusions, arguing that the attack showed signs of planning.
“He made threats in the shop the day before: ‘I’ll be back if I don’t get my money.’ On the day of the crime, he checked his bank account before leaving home to see if he had been reimbursed. He also took the trouble to take a knife and hide it. There was premeditation, and he intended to kill.
“He seemed to fully understand everything he was doing. For me, when someone is in a ‘delusional’ state, they are in their own world and don’t think about anticipating what they need. In my opinion, he is responsible,” she added.
In a statement outside the courthouse on Friday, the lawyer for the victim’s mother said, as cited by CNews, “This decision was felt to be particularly unjust because the evidence in the case demonstrated that Mr. Diallo was aware and determined to commit a crime, and that diminished responsibility should not have been taken into account.
“As a consequence of this decision, Ousmane Diallo has been involuntarily committed to a psychiatric hospital, but Théo’s family is wondering for how long.”
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