Lone hoped for release; the other asked to be declared a victim first and foremost. Mathias Vicherat and Anissa Bonnefont were both found guilty of domestic violence on Friday, November 29, and given suspended prison sentences: 5 months for him, 8 months for her. They were also banned from making contact for three years – a measure that they themselves had called for.
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October 24, 10e chamber of the Paris criminal court had examined for ten long hours this complex, intimate and highly publicized case in which the former director of Sciences Po Paris and his ex-partner, director, were dismissed for mutual domestic violence. Not to “exegesis of a romantic relationship”, warned the prosecutor at the time of request, but to try to establish the responsibilities of one and the other in this “marital catastrophe” which occurred. ended, in December 2023, amid screams, beatings and psychological distress.
“There are two victims here, who are also guilty”
The couple met in October 2021, a few weeks before the election of Mathias Vicherat at Sciences Po – the position of his dreams. On the stand, some three years later, the enarque described a passionate but dysfunctional love, a relationship of control, the feeling of being helpless in the face of the unhealthy jealousy of his ex-partner. Anissa Bonnefont reported the lies and humiliating comments of her former lover, his unbearable coldness in the face of her distress. She admitted to having dealt the first blows, in January 2023, before their relationship descended into violence.
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Mathias Vicherat was convicted (without registration in bulletin number 2 of the criminal record, accessible to administrations) for violence committed in July 2023 which did not result in incapacity for work. On the other hand, he was acquitted for the beatings with which he was accused in September of the same year and which, according to the advice of Anissa Bonnefont, would have caused their client to fracture her wrist.
The director was found guilty of all the acts with which she was accused: violence leading to a 30-day psychological ITT. On October 24, the prosecution had requested the same sentence, of 6 months suspended, for the two former lovers: “I am deeply convinced,” explained the prosecutor, “that there are two victims here who are real victims, but victims who are also guilty. »
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