A man was on appeal Monday in Caen for torturing cats. Taking drugs that could alter his judgment at the time of the facts, he saw the prosecution request a six-month suspended sentence as well as a probation. A less heavy sentence than at first instance.
On June 27, 2018, the defendant, former number two of a Renault Trucks factory in the Caen agglomeration and unemployed since the case was publicized, was sentenced to 18 months in prison, including nine months closed for having dislocated or broken the paws of 15 cats between the end of May and the end of June 2018.
“I will ask the court to retain the alteration” of discernment by “this molecule known to have side effects such as disorders of drive control,” said Deputy General David Pamart on Monday, “it had an impact”. Between 2015 and June 2018, this engineer had taken Neupro then Requip against Parkinson’s disease from which he suffers.
The court will deliver its decision on August 18.
“Premeditated” facts
The public prosecutor’s office requested that the accused’s sentence be confused with that he is carrying out as part of a second conviction in July 2018 for similar facts on other cats (two years, one of which was suspended).
For the general prosecutor’s office, on the other hand, there is no abolition of discernment because the engineer’s behavior was “premeditated”. He ordered cages on the internet to try to trap cats.
Mr. Pamart also criticized the defendant for having “freed himself from medical warnings” who regularly asked him if he had side effects such as strange behavior.
But apart from the case of a patient who tortured cats in Argentina while he was being treated with the same molecule, the scientific literature only mentioned as a side effect that addiction to games, hypersexuality or sex. ‘compulsive shopping, pleaded defense lawyer Dominique Mari. “At no time was my client informed that the drug he was taking could poison him,” she said before asking for his release.
The impairment of this man’s discernment, due to these drugs, was recognized on February 22 by the Caen correctional court, which sentenced him to a 500 euros fine for having killed a dog. The father of four had received death threats in 2018 after his trial.
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