Mathias Vicherat and Anissa Bonnefont, director, appeared on October 24 for violence of which they accused each other. After being placed in police custody at the beginning of December, they did not file a complaint but an investigation was opened by the public prosecutor's office. At the time, students had occupied Sciences Po to demand the resignation of Mathias Vicherat and he had temporarily withdrawn. He resigned in March, the moment he learned of his summons to trial.
The court found him guilty of violence without total incapacity for work (ITT) by a spouse, for strangling his partner in July 2023, but he was acquitted of charges for violence with ITT lasting more than 8 days, which corresponded to a fracture wrist while trying to grab the phone she was holding on September 30, 2023.
Slaps and punches
“It is proven that (these) injuries were caused during a very strong couple argument” during which Anissa Bonnefont “admitted to having been violent,” declared the president in rendering the decision. In this case, the court ruled that the elements were “insufficient to characterize” the offense and “the causal link, the injuries possibly resulting from several distinct behaviors”.
He also authorized non-registration in Mathias Vicherat's criminal record. The defendant was found guilty of violence with ITT for more than 8 days, during the year 2023, for having given her “slaps”, as well as for violence with ITT for less than 8 days for having given her “slaps”. and punches” on December 3.
