Justice does not judge the “crazy”. However, on the bench of the defendants of the Court of Assizes of the Var, Hoël Guglielmi has all the attributes. The 42-year-old man suffers from heboidophrenic schizophrenia (1). A pathology that has led him to frequent psychiatric care units in the region on many occasions since his first delirious puff in 1996.
Impaired discernment according to experts
Today, it is in front of black dresses and not white blouses that he presents himself: Hoël Guglielmi is accused of rapes committed on September 30, 2019 in the Draguignan hospital center on Noémie (name has been changed), a patient. Despite his pathology, he was considered fit to answer for his actions by the five psychiatric experts who looked into his case, considering that the judgment of the defendant was altered, and not abolished, at the time of the facts.
“His acting out is not due to his pathology, but to psychopathic traits developed outside the decompensation phase, says Dr. Serge Suissa. These traits are characterized by a lack of empathy and a utilitarian drive without consideration of the person in front of him.”
On September 30, 2019 in the evening, hosted by a “want to empty your c…” as he was able to repeat throughout the investigation, he therefore approached Noémie. The latter, suffering from deep depression and slight mental retardation, was then hospitalized at her request. And despite a tendency not to know how to say no, she still claims to have refused the advances of Hoël Guglielmi. “I didn’t want to, but he forced me, remembers the young woman of 37 years. He took my arm and led me to his room.”
“I could have raped a more beautiful woman”
There, he would have forced her to have a first sexual intercourse. Then a second and even a third. Back in her room to shower, Noémie was then joined by her attacker who would then have attempted a final report, anal this time. Frozen, shocked, she was unable to put up any resistance.
A nurse, worried about not finding Hoël in her room, sees the man come out of Noémie’s room. “I didn’t rape her, assures the accused. She was making eyes at me. I asked her if she wanted to sleep with me. She said yes. Me, I’m not going to rape a woman like that, she’s fat. I could have raped a more beautiful woman…”
Described as manipulative, provocative and “very kind to get what he wants from psychologically fragile patients”Hoël Guglielmi appears in a state of legal recidivism before the Assize Court.
In November 2000, he was found guilty of raping a fellow prisoner and sentenced to 6 years in prison. For the facts judged this week in Draguignan, he faces 30 years of criminal imprisonment. A sentence reduced by a third if the alteration of discernment were to be retained. Verdict this Friday evening.
1. Heboidophrenia is a psychopathology of the group of schizophrenias considered to be criminogenic. The negative symptoms of schizophrenia dominate with behavioral disorders of the psychopathic register.
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