The defendant's version in court
- From here to the defendant's version as given in the course of his testimony before us.
In his initial interrogation, his version was heard for the first time (apart from the version he gave to the informants) of the events on the night of the murder. His words were expressed as follows:
"A: Because S. and I were sitting there smoking a joint and we heard shouting from street after street from Congress Street and as if the cyclist was just driving in our direction, and I don't know if the people were screaming because they saw the cyclist or because of him and I saw that he was masked.
Q: What did you do?
A: What did I do? I chased him, I was curious to see who the person was, and I ran after him until the turn, it was the end of the neighborhood, they were already reaching the fields, I saw that he was overtaking me and he disappeared and I went back to S.
Q: that you have reached the inquiry,
A: When I got to the call, he was no longer there.
Q: Okay. When I returned to S., did you see him or someone else?
A: When I got to S., I saw someone whose eyes met, and after I saw it, I left.
Q: Where?
A: I went to S. for a few more minutes and told him that I was going to take a shower, he told me that he also wanted to go take a shower and that was it, and then I went home and took a shower, when I went into the shower I sent him a message that you will come to me, go up the stairs, I'm waiting for you, so that he doesn't knock on the door and wake up my parents, my mother because my father was abroad. And I took a shower and got ready, and after I saw that he wasn't coming, I called him again this time and told him like I'm coming to you. We met, I said to him, do you want to come and take the bike with me from my uncle Daddy? He tells me no. I don't have the strength, no. And then I called A.H. Let him come with me if he can come and take me from Congress Street to my uncle."