In Argenton-sur-Creuse, relationships are very conflictual within a group of people. The facts repeat themselves and in the eyes of justice, everyone is sometimes victims and sometimes guilty.
A file concerned one of them, Monday November 18: a thirty-year-old whose criminal record includes “the trifle” of thirty-eight mentions and being recognized for having “personality disorders”.
Absent at the hearing, he told a man being prosecuted in another case: “I’m going to cut your throat, you’re going to join your whore mother”while showing off a pocket knife. Two days earlier, this same individual had attacked a woman over a vague story about an electric scooter. This time he threatened her with a scalpel.
“I'm going to kill you slowly”
On the side of the civil parties, Me Jérôme Dubois-Dinant indicated that his client, “faced a reckoning” for a previous stabbing case (1). “Threats that must be taken seriously and for which we are asking €800 for moral damage. »
According to M.e Emilie Coutant who defended the young woman, “this man absent at the bar placed his scalpel on the throat of [sa] customer by telling her “I’m going to kill you slowly” ». “My client was traumatizedshe pleads. We would be less. I am also requesting the sum of €800 for moral damage. »
For the public prosecutor, in the case of threats with the knife, “the gesture is explicit about the desire to fight”. “We are in a worrying context that could be compared to a first leg and a return match “. For threats with the scalpel, “he says he took it out to cut the power wires of a scooter” and then, the scalpel became a weapon.
On the defense side, Me Angélique Mercier recalled this notion “a group made up of people who are both victims and perpetrators. When the gendarmes intervened, they understood that my client was in a daze, striking himself. The most important thing for him is that he receives treatment, especially since he found a job in Mézières-en-Brenne.”
The man with thirty-eight mentions was found guilty and sentenced to eight months' imprisonment with a two-year probationary suspension. He must no longer come into contact with his two victims and must pay each of them the sum of €500 for the suffering endured.
(1) For these facts, this man was to appear, this same Monday, as a defendant. In accordance with what the law provides, Me Marie-France Meslem requested a psychiatric assessment for her client. His trial was finally postponed until November 3, 2025.
