The driver’s testimony, summarized by the president of the court, shivers down your spine. To the police, he said that in the early morning of July 29, 2019, on his way to work, he met a man on the road to Guénange who was positioned in the middle of the road. The hitchhiker wants him to drive him to Hagondange. Without the driver realizing it, three individuals appear out of nowhere. In fact, the beginning of an ordeal for the Mosellan, sequestered in the trunk of his car for three hours. Freed from his ordeal, in Terville, the victim is thanked by the defendant who throws him: “Thank you! And good continuation ! “
He will not be the only one to have to deal with the one who has been declared schizophrenic for ten years. In the summer of 2021, two other complainants accused the respondent of acts of extortion of money. What lead the latter, for the tenth time, before a criminal court.
“Accessible to a penal sanction, even if his discernment was altered”
“I’ve never put someone in a car trunk, it’s too much prison,” he proclaims, confirming at the bar that he hitchhikes regularly. His consumption of alcohol and drugs? “I quit three months ago, on my own.” The president will still manage to make him confess that often, when he manages to be taken away in the car, it is in spite of everything to provide himself with cannabis and cocaine. “Yes, I take it from time to time, but it’s to calm me down. It helps me to escape, to think of something else ”.
According to psychiatric expertise, someone who has been convicted in the past for theft, sexual harassment, insults and aggravated violence is “accessible to a criminal sanction, even if his discernment was impaired”.
Eight months in prison were pronounced against him, including four months with probationary suspension running over a period of three years. Taking into account the partial revocation of a previous reprieve, decided in hearing last week, he finally receives a seven-month contract, with the obligation of psychiatric monitoring and care for his addictions, and the ban on entry. in contact with the three victims. His continued detention has been decided.
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