Sultan Niazi, who, on August 31, 2019, killed Timothy Bonnet, 19, at the Laurent-Bonnevay metro station in Villeurbanne, will not ultimately be judged: Justice having recognized him as criminally irresponsible, he will be interned in a psychiatric hospital. Régine Bonnet, the grandmother of the young man – valiant mother of eight children – who learned about it from the press, has a broken voice on the phone. For her, it is “as if Timothy was killed a second time.” Of course, as his son says, a judgment wouldn’t have given Timothy back to them. But she feels “robbed.” She looks back on the route of this 34-year-old Afghan migrant, drug addict, who first arrived ten years ago in France, then transited through Italy, the United Kingdom… before returning to France. It was because he thought he saw in Timothy an individual who had insulted him in England – Timothy never set foot there – that he stabbed him. And also because “voices” have ordered him to execute those who do not “read the Koran.” Eight other people were injured, Timothy, who had come from Savoy to go to the Woodstower music festival in Lyon, succumbed. Holder of two CAPs, in bakery and chocolate – because he was the “best student, he had been appointed to do a month’s internship in the kitchens of the Élysée under François Hollande” – he was training as a caterer. at the time of the tragedy. “He deserved a good life,” adds his grandmother, sadly.
