The white-haired man who sits in the booth doesn't look 60 years old. He does much more. The ravages of alcohol. This addiction, which he is unable to get rid of, once again brings him before the Niort criminal court. Justice accuses him of making a hundred malicious telephone calls to the gendarmes between 1is and October 25, 2024.
“You bunch of assholes, bunch of crooks, I’m going to smash you, bunch of thieves, bunch of pigs…” Igor Souchu, the president of the court, did not detail all the insults uttered against the police but we can easily imagine the rest. In total, taken end to end, it was mainly 1 hour 30 minutes of calls which congested the gendarmerie emergencies for a month.
“I do it unconsciously”
The defendant recognizes the facts but does not understand them: “I can't explain it, I do it unconsciously. I blame myself a lot, I regret it. » The mixtures of rosé, beer and pastis made him lose his mind. “The next day, that’s when I check my cell phone. »
This resident of La Chapelle-Saint-Laurent is not his first act of outrage. He already has 22 mentions in his criminal record: refusal to submit to an alcohol test, driving without a license, refusal to comply and already a conviction for malicious telephone calls from 2008… “You don’t like the authorities?” “, questions the judge. “They don’t like me either”stammers the person concerned.
“A dose of camel”
To combat his alcoholism, he requested further hospitalization. “But he would have to give me a dose of camel.” » The court reminds him that he is already subject to care obligations following his previous convictions. While prosecutor Fanny Louis-François considers the case “despairing” and requires 18 months of imprisonment, his lawyer Me Ambroise Garlopeau insists on “very depressive character” of his client and “his isolation” in La Chapelle-Saint-Laurent where he lives.
In the end, the 60-year-old white-haired man was again sentenced to 12 months in prison. Final message from the president: “You’ve had your chance before. » Will he grab it now?
