When the gendarmes entered his house in Cauna on January 15, 2025, this 58-year-old father saw red. They come for his adult son but the man intervenes. He violently headbutts a soldier and injures his nose. Angry, he copiously insults and threatens two others.
This Tuesday, January 21, in front of the Mont-de-Marsan court, the Landais dismisses himself: “It’s not me! It was my disabled son who must have said bad words. He is 12 years of mental age. » He argues: “In addition, they were not dressed like gendarmes and did not have the paper like in the films. »
The prosecutor gets annoyed: “We’re not in the United States. These gendarmes in intervention are within the rules. You simply have to submit to it. »
“Between friends, they defend themselves”
The gray-haired man gets angry: “As they are people of the law, they are right, right? Between friends, they defend each other. I respect the law, I have never done anything. » Facing him, the judge sighs: “Well, not exactly no. » In 2011, the Caunaquois was convicted of contempt and rebellion. In December 2022, for aggravated violence against two doctors at Layné hospital. He was sentenced to six months in prison with a warrant of committal at the hearing.
-When he recalls this memory, he loses his temper: “I don’t want to go back to prison. It's worse than crazy people. I had hatred against justice. On my children, I didn't want to hit this person. Well, not voluntarily. »
Confronted with this father who is “not aware of much”, the prosecutor recalls that he faces ten years in prison, since he is a repeat offender. Released for the death threats, he was found guilty of violence and contempt.
He was sentenced to one year in prison, including six months suspended on probation. The court does not order any modification of the sentence: “He must go to prison, in relation to the seriousness of the facts. » He must pay 300 euros to two gendarmes and 500 euros to the man whose nose he injured.
