3:30 p.m., this Friday, in the immediate appearances room for the second case of the afternoon. The president makes the call to find out if the civil parties are present. At the back of the full room, a man stands up. Mustache and white hair, celestial blue down jacket on his shoulders, he crosses the room at a hurried pace, holding back the beginnings of sobbing. Allow me to express the pain of an adoptive father in the face of this situation,”
attacks the septuagenarian, his wife remaining seated behind him. We couldn't have children, so we opened our home, our arms and our hearts to other children…
Over the years, despite all our attention and everything we were able to put in place with the help of psychologists, he took refuge in alcohol.
The man talks about his son, one of the two children the couple adopted. This one is in the box, judged for violence against his ascendant. Do you know your age?
asks his lawyer, Ramzi Sahli. I was born in 1982, I am over 40 years old
responds the man with the labored speech and false airs of the actor Tchéky Karyo.
Call 15
Sick of alcohol for years, he is subject to memory problems. On September 3, his father ended up calling the 15th on the advice of the firefighters he had first contacted. Insulting “even though he had sobered up from the day before”, the defendant was also violent, notably slapping his mother. Recognized facts. Was this the first time he was physically violent?
asks the president. It was the first time that there was this almost tyrannical assertion
replies the father.
Released at the end of his police custody with a judicial control prohibiting him from appearing at his parents' house in Orvault, the accused returned to pound on the door in the middle of the night. Monsieur understands the prohibitions but does not respect them, there is a part of social distress but another part of omnipotence”,
argues Elsa Guyon, the prosecutor.
The court decides to follow its requisitions by pronouncing a sentence of six months in prison, with continued detention, plus six months of probation. The man was known to the courts for acts of theft, damage and violence against his ex-partner.