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In support of this prosecution, the prosecution noted 41 facts in a few months likely to feed this crime. That is as many interventions of the gendarmes at the marital home of Ludon, theater and object of the confrontation. In May 2020, a family court judge awarded full enjoyment of this house to the then unemployed wife. On July 4, 2020, the deputy sent this message to his wife: “Take what you want but leave Ludon, otherwise the start of the school year will be very hard. »
“Far be it from me to bother”
The persistence of the member to make a dependency of the property, his parliamentary permanence despite the order of the family court judge will seal the architecture of the conflict. “Far be it from me to disturb permanently. My lawyer and the gendarmes told me that I could, ”assures the deputy. 1uh July, he shows up with a locksmith claiming to have stolen from the office. This will turn out to be unfounded. Then the member prides himself on gardening. His wife sees him pruning trees. Then he takes a picture of the chimney, where he spotted a possible crack. Before sending a letter to the prefecture asking that a danger order be taken. On the mailbox, he puts his name, and that of his parliamentary assistant.
On July 29, the MP seems to have wanted to swim in the pool. To access it, his wife suspects him of having passed… through a cat flap. “Mr. Simian, did you go through the cat flap?” asks President Marie-Élisabeth Boulnois. “Do you see me going through the cat flap? asked the defendant in turn. ” There are photos. There, we see near the local swimming pool that day ” notes the president. One day when she has an appointment with the orthodontist, the wife finds herself blocked by her husband’s vehicle, parked in front of the gate. And one evening, while she is in Bordeaux, neighbors call her in disaster, Benoit Simian is pounding on the door with a sledgehammer. Troubled, the justice will end up issuing a protection order prohibiting the deputy from coming into contact with the wife. It will take several weeks for bailiffs and gendarmes to touch it.
Wine for the police
The Cauva (Emergency reception center for victims of aggression) allocates 10 days of ITT to his wife. The expert report will report “traumatic stress” linked to “a dynamic of harassment or even a mental grip”, to “psychological islanding” and a tendency of the spouse “to choose the other” relevant to a profile “manipulator with a tendency to victimize himself”. “What do you think, questions the president? “Is he a psychiatrist or a psychologist?” asks the defendant. ” A psychologist “. “It is very serious what is being said. Divorce is never easy. It is amplified by my situation as a public man. What I’m going through is terrible. “Let’s get back to madam…” cuts the president. “We had happy days. His mother is very present. Too much. I don’t recognize myself at all. »
“The problem is its omnipresence. He prowls continuously, continuously disturbs the enjoyment of the property by Madame, even at night. He does not accept. He wants her to leave and he has decided to ruin her life non-stop, ”thinks prosecutor Rachel Bray, who is asking for eighteen months in prison with a probationary reprieve with a ban on contact with his wife and the obligation to compensate him. With, in addition, an ineligibility of three years. And to prevent the inventory at Prévert: chase in the parking lot of the gendarmerie when giving their child to his mother, gas cuts, EDF…
To pay the alimony, the deputy deposited with the gendarmes a check made out to his wife for the attention of the prosecutor. Comes with a bottle of wine. The magistrate hardly appreciated the attention. “As soon as I did something, it gave rise to a complaint. So I said to myself that I was going to go directly through the gendarmes, ”stammers the deputy.
Deliberate on June 23.