France: Man Charged With Assault on 7-Year-Old Boy

Hat tip Gates of Vienna

In the French town of Mouy in Northern France, about 85 miles from Paris, a 7-year-old boy was allegedly choked and shaken by a 43-year-old man, identified as Salim Bouzaknoun, who is now facing charges in court. He also allegedly maced the boy’s family when they confronted him.

The article below in Courrier-Piccard is translated by Fousesquawk.

43-year-old adult chokes  a 7-year-old child, “He is not very well-behaved”

Salim Bouzaknoun, 43, attacked a 7-year-old child in Mouy, on August 2. He then tear-gassed him, as well as his parents and his sister, with a tear gas device.

Caption: The man appeared in Beauvais court on August 6.

-By Lulu Noirot

Posted August 6, 2025 at 18:47

Despite the 36-year age difference with the victim, Salim Bouzaknoun, a resident of Mouy, age 43,  did not hold back. On August 2, while he was heavily drunk, Salim grabbed a 7-year-old child, lifting him in the air and choking him to the point of making him vomit in the middle of the street.

In court, Salim defends himself, saying that the child had insulted him and minimized his violence despite the injuries shown on the neck of the victim, and the statements of the witnesses contradicting him. “He insulted me with every name. So I went to talk to him, I took him by the collar and shook him a little so that he would understand. He is excitable and not very well-behaved, but in no way did I want to hurt him.”

Later in the night, the parents of the victim, accompanied by the child and his older sister, went to the front of his home to confront him, asking him for an explanation. He then gassed them with a tear gas device that he was carrying with him to the point that they retreated to their car to call the gendarmes.

A childhood friend of the mother

He accused the father of hitting him, forcing him to defend himself: “The device I had on me was because I was afraid of being attacked. He threw a right to the face, on my fractured jaw, it was black; he stank of alcohol, and I got scared.”

However, the man is a friend of the family, “his mother is a childhood friend,” he said. When the judge ask(ed) him why the child would insult him, he respond(ed) that it was without doubt because of a broken promise: ” I had told him I would bring him a (soccer) jersey of Morocco with the name Achraf Hakimi. He had already called me a liar because of that.”

“More a social drinker than addictive”

Salim only partially admits his problems with alcoholism, which he attributes to his lack of a job, his precarious situation, a difficult separation from the mother of his children, and bad company: ” I am more of a social drinker than an addictive one.” On the day of the incident, he had been arrested for public intoxication.

Source: http://garyfouse.blogspot.com/2025/08/france-man-charged-with-assault-on-7.html