This man, now retired, walks painfully to the bar of the criminal court. He is being prosecuted for invasion of privacy by capture, recording and the real-time location of his wife. He had hidden a beacon under the vehicle of the mother of his children with whom he lived for 25 years and with whom he was in the process of separating. He twice placed markers under his car in order to know his actions. Justice accuses him of these reprehensible acts from January to June 2023.
“I was in complete depression, I couldn’t stand being alone“, explains the man who made generations of Nîmes dance and have fun in his nightclub in the center of Nîmes. A nightclub that burned down. An investigation is underway but the criminal trail is mentioned.
The defendant has his face hidden by a mask, a sign of long-term covid and serious health difficulties which require him in particular to require respiratory assistance. “He was not a choirboy, he spent his entire career in the nightlife world. But, since the events, he has had serious health difficulties and came close to death. Relations have improved with Madame“, argues the counsel for the civil party, Maître Valérie Bach, who plays the appeasement card.
“He knew fame, he had a lot of money, a lot of friends too, but today he is alone. It often takes time to climb to the top of the ladder, but the fall is rapid, terrible, apocalyptic“, adds Master Audrey Moyal for the defendant. “He spent 32 years at the head of a nightclub established on the street in Nîmes, an establishment which burned down, a life which collapsed with his wife. Today he is alone”adds the Gard lawyer.
The ex-prince of the night, unknown to the justice system until this criminal case, ultimately received a 3-month suspended prison sentence.
