The former director of Sciences Po Paris, Mathias Vicherat, and his partner, sentenced to suspended prison terms

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The sentence has fallen. Friday November 29, 2024, the ex-director from Sciences Po Paris, Mathias Vicherat, was sentenced to five months in prison for violence on his former partner. The latter was also sentenced to eight months in prison for violence against him.

Suspended prison sentence

At the time of their placement in police custody last October, students had busy school to demand the resignation of Mathias Vicherat. He then temporarily withdrew. He resigned in March, when he learned of his summons on trial.

The court recognized the ex-director guilty of violence without total incapacity for work (ITT) by spouse, for having strangled his partner in July 2023, but he was acquitted of prosecution for violence with ITT of more than 8 days, which corresponded to a wrist fracture while trying to grab the phone she was holding on September 30, 2023.

“It is proven that (these) injuries were caused during a very strong argument of a couple” during which Anissa Bonnefont “admitted to having been violent,” declared the president in rendering the decision. In this case, the court found that the elements were “insufficient to characterize” the offense and “the causal link, the injuries may result from several distinct behaviors”.

A ban on mutual contact

The defendant was recognized guilty of violence with ITT greater than 8 days, during the year 2023, for having given him “slaps”, as well as for violence with ITT less than 8 days for having given him ” slaps and punches » on December 3.

In both cases, the court mentioned having taken into consideration “the context of a relationship particularly dysfunctional for many months”, adding, for Mathias Vicherat, that he had “regularly suffered violence from (his) partner”.

A ban on mutual contactfor three years was pronounced with provisional execution. Mathias Vicherat's defense indicated that they were going to appeal “because he is nothalf innocenthe is completely innocent.” Anissa Bonnefont's council did not wish to react immediately.

(With AFP)

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