She had already been sentenced in April for thousands of calls to firefighters. A 42-year-old woman was sentenced to 10 months in prison on Monday by the Montluçon court for having resumed harassing the emergency services.
368 calls to the Allier firefighters between his release from prison on October 9 and November 19 were recorded. Drinking heavily, this woman would call to talk or to complain.
Rescuers attacked
Sometimes, interventions were necessary because she claimed to have stuck a knife in her hand, to have cleared herself or while there was fire in her home. When rescuers arrived at her home on November 28 and December 2 with ailments and a head injury, she attacked them, accused them of rape, beat one of them and tried to brush another with her blood when she knew she had hepatitis C.
Before the court on Monday, the forty-something, tried in immediate appearance, assured in particular that the firefighters had not understood her on the phone. “The firefighters are not SOS Amitié, the defendant does not question herself at all, and we can only prevent her from harming”, lamented the deputy prosecutor Christophe Da Costa, who required ten months in prison .
Loss estimated at 1,200 euros
The lawyer for firefighters and the Departmental Intervention and Rescue Service (SDIS) 03, Me Michel Pradillon, estimated that “the cost of the 17 interventions at this lady exceeds (a) 1,200 euros”, and especially that they could have been done to the detriment of other more important ones. The lawyer of the defendant, Me Valérie Bourg, for her part, recalled the great social distress of her client, very isolated, as well as her psychiatric problems. She also argued that in the previous case, an expert had found that her judgment was impaired.
The alteration of discernment was also retained on Monday by the court which attached his sentence of 10 months in prison to continued detention, 5 years of prohibition to stay in the Allier, and the obligation to compensate the victims.
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