Auda seats: Who is Jonathan Morin, accused of drowned Gabrielle Desprez in the Berre?

The body of a young woman had been found in a water hole in the La Berre river, in Portel-les-Corbières, on June 8, 2021 by a baignosa. It was a young woman, Gabrielle Desprez, 25 years old, living in Narbonne, recognized as a 75 % mental handicapped and placed under guardianship. During a very fast investigation, based on telephone, video surveillance and banking investigations, the Narbonne research brigade gendarmes arrested Jonathan Morin on June 30.

He makes the body disappear in the Berre and uses the bank card of his victim 3 times

During his hearing, Jonathan Morin explained that he had hitchhiked Gabrielle three weeks earlier and had a love at first sight. He had then moved into her, adding that the nature of their relationship was “Sex based”. Then, according to him, their relationship had deteriorated and he had left it, before returning, on the insistence of the young woman. He had taken her to the edge of the Berre, “To have a good time “but there, said Jonathan, Gabrielle never stopped talking about her ex-friendly friend, which had put her out of him. Jonathan remembered having put his hand on Gabrielle's head and pressed, now in the water. To make the body disappear, he filled the Gabrielle bag with stones, passed it to the young woman's arm, using the handles of the swimsuit to attach everything. Subsequently, he removed money 37 times with the bank card stolen from his victim. He admitted to investigators that he also used Gabrielle's disabled card to park more easily. He conceded that if he had not surrendered, it is because “That he didn't want to take Perpet”.

But facing the investigating judge, Jonathan said for the first time being “inhabited”. He claims that it is not him, but an imaginary character that he lives in him, a woman, Johanna, who had a love at first sight for Gabrielle, and that it was “the monster” who had drowned the young female. He detailed that several identities lived in his brain.

At this hearing of the Assize Court, this Friday, January 24, chaired by François-Marie Cornu, he is a man held since 1^is July 2021 which is held in the accused box. A medium-sized size, it is corpulent, its head is shaved on the sides and at the rear, leaving on the skull only a wick of hair ended by a thin ponytail. Experts who succeeded each other at the helm described a complex life course, a disturbed childhood, her mother who was just 18 when she gave birth to it. The personality investigator explains that the latter would have told him that “The father had slept with the maternal grandmother, which had caused a break between the two women, and the grandmother would have taken the child. The mother would have tried to kill him, when he was only a baby “.

He was raised by his grandmother, then placed in a home at the age of 7, where he is unhappy and says he is harass. It was at that time, he said later, that the different personalities rub shoulders in his head. At the helm, he said he has been smoking since the age of 6. His schooling was chaotic, placed in apprenticeship, he never had his course. He was without profession at the time of the facts, having led a life of wandering, hosted on the right and on the left at different members of his family.

There is no alteration of discernment

“His first identity appears as a pyromaniac in college, when he sets fire to the toiletnote at the helm Doctor Pecastaing, psychiatrist expert. He consumes cannabis, which allows him to be in his bubble “. Jonathan told the psychiatrist that he had prostitled himself with older women. He had a son with a companion, who left him, and did not recognize the child. The expert finds “A neutral mood, no affect. He does not show any guilt and says that it was due to the monster that took possession of him. “ For the psychiatrist, “There is conversion of his disorders into psychic symptoms, the subject being unable to face his actions. This conversion allows him to get out of a situation that he is unable to assume. He does not note abolition or alteration, of discernment : He uses personalities to defend himself, it is a secondary construction to be doubly utilitarian for criminal plane and for himself, to get out of it with a minimum of breakage “.

At this point in the hearing this Friday, the examination of this case appears in all its subtlety, and the expert reports are rich in lessons:“He has no mental impairment, he is not unintelligent, and suffers from anxiety of abandonment, underlines for his part Marie-Chantal Bonnet Cathala clinical psychologist. If he highlights his multiple personalities – and he talks about it until we come back to the murder -, “It is a defense mechanism in the face of anxiety that oppresses it. He creates a character, wants us to be interested in him, he is looking for his place in society “.

The Court examines this case until Tuesday January 28, the day of the verdict.