A “racial obsession”: since the death in August of Djamel Bendjaballah, crushed by the ex-husband of his partnerhis relatives fight so that the murder is reclassified as ” racist assassination “, Premeditated and motivated according to them by the racism of the suspect.
On August 31, 2024 around 8:45 p.m. in Cappelle-la-Grande (North), Djamel Bendjaballah, 43-year-old educator, was crushed by another 43-year-old man, the ex-husband of his partner. The latter is indicted for murder and placed in pre -trial detention.
The suspect would have “come to crush him and then backtrack to go and crush it again”
Coming to his ex-partner a day when he did not have custody of their children, the defendant “tried to hit him for the first time (…), returned a second time, rushed at high speed on Djamel”, reports Zohra Bendjaballah, mother of Djamel, Saturday during a gathering in the Dunkirk court.
According to her, the violence of the shock projected her son in the air, then the suspect would have “come to crush him and then backtrack to go and crush him again”, she describes with a retained anger, relying on the accounts of witnesses.
A few days before his ten years, Djamel Bendjaballah’s daughter attended the scene, as is the children of the respondent.
For Zohra Bendjaballah, no doubt: it is an “racist murder”, the alleged murderer who did not support “the perspective that bougnouleas he called Djamel, was able to have authority over his children. ”
To support her remarks, she claims to have three complaints from her son against the suspect, as well as proof of the filing of a fourth, in March 2024, a few months before the murder.
Djamel Bendjaballah details the insults made by the ex-husband of his partner: “Bougnoule”, “Sarrazin”, “Rat”. “A harsh, terrifying racism that has made his life a hell for three long years,” his mother moves.
“In a complaint, Djamel says He has weapons at home, I’m afraid, I’m afraid for my daughter (…) He should have been protected, “she said.
The Dunkirk prosecutor, Charlotte Huet, said it was recipient of two complaints filed by Djamel Bendjaballah for “non -public insults due to the origin, ethnicity, nation, race or religion”.
Classified without follow -up at the time, they were “transmitted by the prosecution to the investigating judge, from the opening of the judicial information” on the murder, indicates the prosecutor.
“There was really this racial obsession with my brother, and until the last minute,” said AFP Nadia Bendjaballah, Djamel’s sister, reporting that the victim’s last words “it’s still racist insults”.
The respondent belonged to a far-right group
According to the family and several anti-racist associations, the respondent belonged to the Patriotic French Brigade, a far-right group of which several leftist parliamentarians asked for dissolution.
A petition requiring the reclassification of the murder as a racist crime brought together nearly 32,000 signatures.
The investigation, initially opened for murder by the prosecution, was entrusted on September 2 to an investigating judge, who did not ask for his requalification at this stage, according to the prosecution.
For the Dunkirk prosecutor, “the assessment of the adequate qualification will be carried out in the light of the current elements during the investigation by the investigating judge, the interrogation of the to come under investigation and the hearing of the civil party which he has the possibility of organizing”.
For the time being, associations including the League for Human Rights, SOS Racisme and the Licra have been opposed to a refusal to constitute civil party. But “if the qualification (racist) is retained, they can of course (becoming)”, explains Charlotte Huet.
For Dominique Sopo, president of SOS Racisme, this case testifies to a “blindness” of justice, which he compared to the scandals that occurred during female committed as a result of complaints classified without follow -up.
“A requalification would make it possible to speak to a whole community and to reassure them that they are protected,” hopes Damien Carême, an insublished MEP and former mayor of Grande-Synthe, a city close to Cappelle-la-Grande. Before emphasizing: “If we do not describe that as a racist, I do not know which other murder we will qualify as a racist”.
