“I apologize from the bottom of my heart, lady,” said the defendant. The 41-year-old man speaks directly to the president as soon as he arrives in the pits of the Thionville Criminal Court. He is trembling. He suffers from psychiatric disorders. And his heroin use doesn’t help.
On July 16, shortly after midnight in Thionville, he terrified a motorist who was quietly driving home. He gets in the car, he stops at the red light, quai Marchal, just before the Allied bridge, a stone’s throw from the courthouse. The driver has no time to react. He says the intruder pulled out a switchblade, a 6-inch blade that he put on his thigh. The victim has no choice but to obey. His passenger asks him to accompany him to Metz-Borny, in the heart of the city, where he takes a dose of heroin before being driven home.
Left alone, the shocked motorist alerted the police and immediately went to the police station, around 2:30 am, to file a complaint. He identifies his aggressor, already known to the authorities. The latter will be arrested ten days later by a crew of the BAC in Guénange. Same story as the previous one: the man got into the car of a stranger, in front of the town hall of Thionville. He wasn’t going to threaten this time. But the driver did not go away, struck by the imposing stature of his passenger.
Closed prison
“It’s over, I swear to you, I won’t hitchhike anymore!” “Throw the defendant into the bar. He denies the knife threats the actor accuses him of. “I acknowledge that I entered his vehicle without permission,” he admits. “I asked him to take me to the Metz, he said yes. Along the way, we argued, we laughed, “he explains.” So why did the driver call the police right after you left? “” Asks the president of the court. This Wednesday, the victim made the trip but he preferred to stay behind the door of the classroom.
“Please don’t put me back in prison,” pleads the accused, judged to be in immediate appearance. His lawyer, Me La Schiazza, describes a man overwhelmed by his demons, invokes an altered discernment at the time of the facts. The court ruled out any changes to the sentence and sentenced the hitchhiker attacker to five months in prison. He orders his immediate detention and revocation in 2021 three months of imprisonment with suspension of the sentence for old acts of violence and kidnapping.
