Simple neighborhood dispute? Desire for love thwarted? Questions about the actions of the mother of the family did not find an answer at the end of her trial, at the court of Chartres.
Only one thing is established: it was in open conflict with its neighbors for a long time, in this place called Tillay-le-Peneux.
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For several months, the 51-year-old woman had been filing complaints against her neighbors, whom she accused of all evils. “Their children telephoned mine, with remarks with a sexual connotation”, she assures, at the bar of the court. “Once, the parents almost ran over my son with their car. »
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The mother of the family decided not to stop there. She wrote threatening and insulting messages to herself.
“I’m sure they’re my neighbours,” she denounced to the Orgères-en-Beauce gendarmerie, when she filed a complaint again.
A case that the gendarmes take seriously, especially since in some of the messages she claimed to have received in her mailbox, a gendarme was implicated, described as “big blue”.
“I have a big crush on him”
Telephone tapping, surveillance, installation of cameras, hearings of the twenty-one inhabitants of the hamlet, handwriting analyses… Everything was done to try to identify the crow.
Especially since the messages continued to arrive, more and more threatening and more and more insulting to the gendarme.
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The woman even denounced two physical assaults. One by the pilot and passenger of a mysterious “black scooter”, the other by a motorist “with an accent from Eastern countries at the wheel of a white car”.
The woman was suspected when she mistakenly sent the policeman in charge of the investigation an email originally intended for one of her friends. “I think I’m getting sentimental,” she wrote. “The policeman is driving me crazy. I have a big crush on him. »
Placed in police custody, she ends up confessing everything. “I couldn’t stand it any longer that my complaints were dismissed. »
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She admits to having written ninety anonymous letters, with the help of a normographer so that her handwriting would not be identified. She also admits to having invented the attacks of which she claimed to be the victim.
Tried for imaginary crimes and threats of crime against the gendarme, the woman changes version in court. “I only recognize fifty messages”, she assures, explaining that she had done this “for my children”.
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She denies being the author of the messages implicating the gendarme. Straight in her boots, looking at her lawyer with a knowing air, she poses as a victim. “When a new investigator took over from the policeman who stepped down from the case, he called me ‘madame la bitch’. »
“Still be careful what you say,” reacts the president of the hearing.
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In the same way, she denies the disappointment in love, the gendarme having not followed up on her advances. She had however accused him of having wanted to kiss her by force, which the soldier vigorously defended himself at the hearing.
“She takes the jurisdiction and justice for morons,” gets angry the public prosecutor. “You have to stop watching television series and move on! »
The woman was given a six-month suspended prison sentence and a fine of €1,000.
Since then, the gendarme has been transferred to the south of France. The wife and her family too… 100 km from his home.
Jacques Joannopoulos
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