At 8:45 p.m., a few hours after the attack which cost Matisse’s life in Châteauroux, the suspect’s mother, 37, was arrested and placed in police custody in turn. Me Nathalie Gomot-Pinard, his lawyer, was then “committed ex officio by his order within the framework of his criminal permanence”. “For a person indicted on a criminal investigation, it is not a right but a legal obligation that they have a lawyer”she insists.
According to the Bourges prosecutor, your client “slapped” Matisse.
Mr. GP. “She admitted to having struck. When did she intervene? What is the nature of his blows? When were they given? We don’t know exactly yet. She is disoriented about the dramatic consequences of the death of a young person the age of her own son. We must give time to justice to determine the circumstances. »
She was placed under judicial supervision. What could have influenced this decision?
“Even if we are faced with an investigation of a criminal nature, as far as she is concerned, she is indicted for violence aggravated by the vulnerability of the victim. This is not complicity in homicide. She was not known to law enforcement. »
His release provoked strong reactions.
“That’s why I’m speaking out. Some take the fact that she is outside as a form of injustice. If an investigation lasts so long on the opening of criminal information, it is because a certain number of investigations and confrontations must be carried out to try to be as close as possible to reality. Neither of them were there. Popular vindictiveness cannot replace justice. The relatives are very dignified and have themselves called for calm. »
