Assault victim lawyer in Metz and Luxembourg

This is the protective principle of the scheme: the victim of an offence should not bear the insolvency or disappearance of their attacker. The CIVI, a specialised court, rules on compensation and pays it through the Guarantee Fund (FGTI). Depending on the nature of the offence and the severity of the sequelae, compensation is full (serious harm to the person) or capped (less serious offences, subject to means conditions).

Meeting the deadlines is decisive: 3 years from the offence, or 1 year from the final criminal decision. After that, recourse becomes exceptional.

Alongside or ahead of the CIVI, becoming a civil party gives you a full procedural status in the criminal trial: access to the file, attendance at investigative steps, the right to plead at the hearing and to claim reparation directly before the trial court. I provide this representation, closely articulated with the compensation procedure.

For lighter harm outside the CIVI's scope, when the offender has been ordered to pay damages they do not settle, the Victims' Recovery Assistance Service (SARVI) advances the sums and recovers them from the convicted person. It is a useful, often overlooked, subsidiary route.

As with any personal injury, reparation is built head by head under the Dintilhac nomenclature, based on an adversarial medical assessment and once the condition is consolidated. Psychological harm, frequent after an assault, has its full place there.