The general counsel for the trial into the violent attack suffered by football player Yoane Wissa in 2021 in Lorient, requested 18 years in prison against his alleged attacker, who wanted to take away his child.
The attorney general requested 18 years in prison, Thursday January 23, against the woman accused of having violently attacked Yoane Wissa on the night of July 1 and 2, 2021. Then a Lorient player, he had been sprayed with hydrochloric acid in face by her attacker who had entered her home to kidnap her one-month-old baby. The attacker, then awaiting transfer, intervened but had to be urgently hospitalized.
“I’m suffocating, I can’t see anything anymore”
Earlier in the day, the accused, Laetitia P., aged 38 and living in Vannes, had asked the player for an autograph. The next day, she kidnapped another little girl in Vannes (found alive 12 hours later) and seriously injured the child's mother. She has been on trial since Tuesday before the Vannes Assize Court for attempted murder, kidnapping, attempted kidnapping and the assault of the current Brentford player.
Thursday, the player took the stand to recount this attack in the middle of the night while he was in the toilet. “I open the door and I receive a liquid,” he testified. “Straight up, I kick and scream. I'm in the dark. There's only the toilet light shining. I feel like the person is tripping. I scream. I scream. I scream. There, I see her and I say 'it's her, it's her'. I hand the phone to my wife who calls the firefighters. I'm suffocating, I can't see anything anymore. The player explained that he had fully regained his sight three months later, explaining that this attack had delayed his transfer and his adaptation to England.
-“What takes precedence with her? The voices or her mythomania and her desire to protect herself,” questioned Attorney General Éric Pouder, in his requisitions reported by Ouest-France. “It’s the story of a liar who ruined a large part of her life because of her pathology, her propensity to lie.” He returned to the pregnancy of the accused “which never existed”, as the woman herself admitted. In her defense, the accused claims to have heard voices telling her to commit these acts.
“She is trying to save her loaves,” said the attorney general. “It's natural. But don't come and tell me that it's the voices. The alteration is not obvious. There is no psychiatric pathology, but a personality disorder. Voices intrusive, but without injunction. She never lost touch with reality.
