By Julie Hurisse
Published on 3 Mar 21 @ 6:37 pm
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A man, bleeding, entered and collapsed in the PMU the Vincennes from rue Gambetta to Sablé-sur-Sarthe (Sarthe), Tuesday 2 March 2021. He was found in possession of two knives. An episode which was only the epilogue of the afternoon. A inhabitant of the Sabolian country, shocked, testifies to what she lived this Tuesday.
Sylvie * knows the Sabolien well, he has been a friend “for ten years”. A friend she and her husband hosted for three months.
“He is kind, benevolent. He was homeless after his separation. We helped him go up the slope.”
Until he found accommodation.
“He tried to set our car on fire”
This Tuesday afternoon, after being away, she sees a white spot on the door of her car. “My husband approached. It was cotton ”. Then, looking more closely, he notices that the car is covered with diesel. While discussing with their neighbors, the couple identifies the one who would be the author of the facts, their friend.
“He tried to set our car on fire! Sylvie trembles at the consequences that could have ensued. “If he had done that at night or while my children were there…” She immediately called the gendarmerie.
Double-glazed windows smashed in the fist
“I then called my mom to warn her.” The latter was absent. When she got home, “she found three double-glazed panes totally broken and blood. He had done that with his fists ”.
Sylvie discovered on our website that he then went, bleeding, to the bar Le Vincennes and that he collapsed there.
“He hadn’t slashed his arms, the blood was coming from his wounds caused after breaking the windows”
As for the knives that the man had on him, she explains sobs in her voice. “We gave him at Christmas with other cutlery and crockery.”
She calls the gendarmerie again, who tells her that he is in police custody.
In addition to fear, his actions have financial consequences. “It will cost us several hundred euros to have the car repaired, several parts of which have been attacked by diesel”.
She lodged a complaint this Wednesday morning, at the Sablé gendarmerie. The Sabolien was still in custody.
“We could have lost everything on a stroke of madness”
Sylvie tries to understand what happened.
“We are in shock. We say to ourselves that we could have lost everything on a stroke of madness.”
She thinks back to the character of the Sabolian she thought she knew. “He never had one word higher than the other. He is always the first to come and help. There was nothing to suggest that he could be dangerous ”. For her, “he went crazy, with the Covid and all that. I’m sure inside him, he never wanted to hurt us ”.
* Borrowed name to preserve the anonymity that she wished to keep.
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