Trial of the parents of the A10 martyr: “I was a bad father, I could not protect my little Inass. I accept the consequences”

Court story - Before the Blois assizes, the father of the “martyr of the A10” does not deny anything: he heard the screams and tears of his daughter, but let it happen. “I was a coward”, “a rascal”, he repeated on the stand.

Between the grocery store at 139 rue Jean-Jaurès, in Puteaux, and the back shop which served as the Touloub family's apartment, there was a door. Behind it came the cries of distress of Inass, 4 years old, who suffered the daily wrath of his mother. “When I hear screams, tears, I push the door,” said his father Ahmed Touloub, 74, in front of the Loir-et-Cher criminal court. During his interrogation on Friday, the old man's body was folded into his chair, his face slowly sagging onto his cane. He is more weakened than in previous days, struggling to articulate. "I haven't slept, haven't slept, haven't slept... I think a lot..." Soon, Ahmed Touloub will regain the silence to which he has subjected himself for the last forty years. But for now, we have to return to the Puteaux shop. “What were you doing?” asks Advocate General Stéphane Javet. “I was screaming out the door and she was screaming louder than me.” “Did you open the connecting door?” “Yes, because customers were going to wonder what’s going on.” “It’s annoying that they hear screams. Isn’t it even more annoying that Inass is going through what she went through?”