“What is going on in the head of a police officer who works on weekends and is insulted? To whom we say: “I know where your wife and children live” ? » The question from the deputy prosecutor is purely rhetorical, and the gendarme is not present this Tuesday, November 12, 2024 to try to provide an answer. On the dock, a 38-year-old Indian woman, wearing a pink sweater and handcuffs on her wrists, listens to the summary of the facts, feverishly. Before the Châteauroux court, the president looks back on the day of Sunday, November 10.
“This gendarme is starting to be afraid. I say it very clearly”
This woman screams in a building and tries to enter an apartment to get explanations following a dispute. The police are called and the wrath of this drunk thirty-year-old is directed towards one of them, whom she knows from having encountered him on other interventions. “Bastard of your dead!” Sons of bitches. You are dead. I know where you live. » Placed in police custody, her blood alcohol level showed a level of 0.92 mg of alcohol per liter of exhaled air (2.1 g per liter of blood).
“I had the wrong apartment tooshe regrets at the bar. […] I know I shouldn't react like that, I'm impulsive. » This gendarme would have, according to her, provoked him. “He arrives in front of me and he puffs out his chest. This means “Ah you are there! That's it, you're going to go back (in prison).” » The gendarme's pedestrian camera was activated, and according to the description given by the deputy prosecutor to “at no time does he intervene. He lets his colleague do it. »
“This gendarme is starting to be afraid, I say it very clearly”she continues. For the defense lawyer, Mr.e Jérôme Dubois-Dinant, she let herself “overwhelm by a situation much broader than the reading that is made of the facts”. This Indian “is basically alone”he emphasizes. She takes care of her 19 year old son “who makes him see it”. She has been fighting cancer, and its relapses, for several years.
“This sentence takes into account your medical situation”
For the public prosecutor, “illness does not excuse everything”, and the first conviction for contempt dates back to 2015. It will be followed by three other similar cases. The ministry requested eight months in prison and the revocation of four months of probation (a total of one year). She was sentenced to six months in prison. Two months of suspended sentence were revoked. A sentence that can be adapted at home using an electronic bracelet. “This sentence takes into account your medical situation, insists the president of the audience. It would have been totally different in another context, you need to have that in mind. »
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