he had “badly ruined the lives” of his neighbors and received a prison sentence

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The criminal court of Nantes sentenced this Tuesday, November 26, 2024, a resident of Bouaye (Loire-Atlantique) to five months in prisonwith continued detention following the hearing, for having put several of his neighbors through a “real ordeal” between July and October 2024, reports the Presspepper agency.

The defendant was in fact appearing precisely for “moral harassment”, “repeated death threats”, but also “damage to property intended for the public utility”: he had in fact also managed to “collapse” the “door of his cell of sobering up.”

One of his neighbors first complained on October 14, 2024 to the gendarmes of the “harassment” of this man who arrived during the year 2021 and who was “most of the time drunk or on narcotics”.

Insults, death threats…

The neighbor, who could “no longer sleep” at homemaintained that a “young couple” and a “next-door neighbor” were also victims.

More precisely, the neighbor reproached the defendant for his “insults” and his “death threats”, and held him responsible for the “flat tires” and “damage” to his “apartment door” and his “garage door”. “.

His wife confirmed all of his comments. Their son had also reported that the defendant had been bothering “the entire neighborhood of the building” for a year and a half with his “noise”, his “degradations” and his “violence”.

“He ruined our lives”

A medical examination revealed “anxio-depressive symptoms” in the neighbor and assessed her total incapacity for work (ITT) at 10 days.

Her husband's examination revealed “anxiety problems, sleep problems and loss of appetite”.

Another resident of the building also complained of “death threats” made by the defendant in front of his children aged 4 and 7, on October 15, 2024.

On September 13, 2024, while he was in a sobering up cell for “public and obvious drunkenness”, the defendant “knocked on the door and degraded the cell », recounted the president of the court, so loudly that she “collapsed”.

Finally, the man was accused of having “voluntarily” damaged a camera belonging to the Caisse d’Épargne.

“Our life has been turned upside down, I’m having trouble getting over it”

The three neighbors, who had become civil parties, therefore spoke at the bar. “I find that he tends to minimize the facts a lot: during this whole period he has made our lives very bad,” said the first.

“Our life has been turned upside down, I'm having trouble getting over it,” added his wife. I go to the town a few more times and when I see an individual of his size, it disturbs me. » The couple is also in the process of “moving little by little”.

The third neighbor recalled that he was at home when the incident occurred, that he was “playing with his children” and that he had “not asked anything” from the defendant. “My children were afraid and are still afraid today…. They are traumatized, he told the Nantes judges. I had already met him in Bouaye without there being any problem, but alcohol makes him completely different.”

A “schizotypal personality disorder”

A social survey and one psychiatric expertise had allowed us to learn more about the life of this “single” man, father of an “unrecognized” 9-year-old child whom he had only seen “a few times”.

The accused was educated until the 4th grade, he has “no diploma” and benefits from a Recognition of the status of disabled worker(RQTH) up to “80%” for “schizotypal personality disorder”.

However, this had not “abolished his discernment” at the time of the events, according to a psychiatrist. “If I have money, I tend to want to buy[de l’alcool]» recognized this addict who “stopped two and a half years ago”. “I have always had self-destructive behavior since my mother died,” he said.

The fact remains that “this behavior cannot be accepted,” replied the public prosecutor. “He is not the neighbor we would like to have. »

She therefore requested twelve months in prison with continued detention to “avoid the repetition of the offenses”. A “ban on appearing at the home of each of the victims”, a “ban on contact” with them and a “ban on appearing on Bouaye” for three years – under penalty of spending an additional eight months in prison – had also been requested.

Already convicted seven times

On a legal level, the man had already been convicted seven timesin particular for “drunk driving”, “violence against a person holding public authority” or “illicit use of narcotics”.

Another case of “violence with the threat of a weapon” committed in Bouaye will also be judged in May 2025, noted the public prosecutor.

The Nantes criminal court finally acquitted the defendant for the “damage” committed to the Caisse d'Épargne but found him guilty of the other offenses.

The defendant was sentenced to five months in prison with continued detention. He is also prohibited from contacting the victims and appearing at their homes. He will have to pay compensation to the neighbors (€1,500 and €500) as well as €90 to the State for damage to the sobering-up cell.

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