IHe risks life imprisonment for attempted murder of a spouse. On this Monday, November 18, the second day of hearing before the Charente-Maritime Assize Court, Jorgo Tare, an Albanian national now aged 55, appears as on the first day, motionless and his eyes glued to the floor of the court of Saintes.
The testimony of his ex-wife, Marjeta, from whom he has been officially divorced since August 2024, hardly makes the one who still wears the wedding ring react. He does not react either to the words of his youngest son, 19 years old, who nevertheless seeks his father's gaze at the end of his story.
He came out. I screamed like I didn't know I could scream
Called to testify as a victim and civil party, Laurence, a volunteer in an association helping asylum seekers, delivers a dignified and enlightening testimony on these days of May 18 and 19, 2022, in La Rochelle, boulevard Sautel. Member of a collective supporting this Albanian family, who was refused the right to asylum, she accompanies the couple and the children in the administrative procedures, from the beginning of 2021. “We have formed a very strong bond . »
“He’s going to kill us”
In mid-2021, the father was sentenced by the La Rochelle criminal court to four months in prison for domestic violence and death threats. Upon his release from prison, Jorgo Tare was sent back to the border and banned from French territory for two years. An administrative sanction that affects the collective and the family. On May 18, 2022, late in the morning, Laurence received two successive calls from the cadet, who was then 16 years old.
The father has returned, he is hitting his mother, trying to strangle her. “He’s going to kill us,” he said. The violent man escapes before the police arrive. As a precaution, after a trip to the emergency room, the mother and the youngest son spend the night at Laurence's house; the youngest with another volunteer. The eldest goes to boarding school.
Three police searches
The next day, return to Boulevard Sautel. Laurence went to do some shopping nearby. But a window is open. “We had closed the house,” says Laurence, who calls the police. “Marjeta was convinced he was there. » The neighbor on the second floor is gardening. On the stand, she relates that the police “visited the house and my apartment on 2e floor. They didn't find it at her place or mine. »
Laurence follows the first two inspections from afar. She's with the officers for the third search. “They made the hangers slide well. The soft wardrobe was in open position. There was a pile of clothes all in clutter. She didn't look like the mistress of the family. » The police leave.
A cry that “curds the blood”
Laurence kicks the wardrobe to demonstrate to Marjeta, still frightened, that Jorge Tare cannot be there. “He’s out. I screamed like I didn't know I could scream. » No doubt the cry which “curdled the blood” of the neighbor on the second floor. The man brandishes a knife “point upwards”, the volunteer manages to grab the attacker's wrist with both hands.
He was nervous, determined. He wanted to follow through with his idea
“We struggled. » Marjeta tries to flee; his son is looking for the keychain to open the door. Jorge Tare catches up with his wife in the living room and stabs her twice in the stomach. “How are we going to get out of here alive? », Laurence remembers thinking at that moment. She and the couple's son try to intervene. The volunteer slides cushions to protect Marjeta; the teenager disarms his father by putting his hand on the blade. The volunteer hits Jorge Tare's head to “ring him”. She seriously injured her hand. Marjeta manages to get out. She is chased by her husband, this time armed with a pair of scissors. He will be arrested shortly after while Marjeta took refuge at the neighboring florist.
Multiples interventions
All the witnesses present recount the determination of the accused and the terror of the victims. A motorist, who had not immediately understood the neighbor's call for help since the police had just left, saw Marjeta, “in panic”, “folded over herself”. For me, the lady was in danger. » So, he puts himself in the path of the violent husband. “He stared at me. I stopped. He stopped. He was nervous, determined. He wanted to follow through with his idea. Everyone was shaking. The little one was terrified. » So many interventions which, from the volunteer to this motorist to the son, undoubtedly prevented the worst from happening.
The debates resume this Tuesday, November 19 with the pleadings. Verdict expected in the evening.
Paranoid delirium
“He considers that she is the guilty one and that she should go to prison. » Heard at the beginning of the afternoon of this Monday, November 18, Dr Bonnan, expert psychiatrist, is categorical about the “delusional paranoid problem” of the accused, a problem “entirely focused on his married life”. “Jealousy”, “possessiveness”, “persecutive delusion”, “distrust”, “psychorigidity”, “absence of compassion”, “falsity of judgment”… Dr Bonnan’s report joins that of another professional psychologist, earlier in the morning.
He paints the portrait of a man who “does not question himself”, who “trivializes” and “minimizes” the facts, going so far as to deny them. During the interview with the expert, Jorgo Tare even declared: “If I had been violent, I would have killed her in her sleep. » The accused was convinced of being deceived. “He victimizes himself to give himself a good image. »
The hearing of the accused, at the very end of the day, resonated with the findings of the expert psychiatrist. For him, everyone lies, his son and his ex-wife first and foremost. The stab wounds in the stomach? “I stabbed her without meaning to, without paying attention. »
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