The gendarme who invented his attack south of Toulouse condemned by justice
He is a rather coherent man who takes the stand. It is precise, gives a number of details. This chief sergeant was tried on January 10 for denunciation of false facts and degradation of public property.
The gendarme succeeded in his version: he says he was attacked
On the night of November 11 to 12, 2021, in his barracks in Villefranche-de-Lauragais, after a mission, he called other gendarmes as reinforcements, claiming to have been attacked by an individual who fled. While he was looking for his phone in the Peugeot 5008 that he had just borrowed with a colleague, this man allegedly punched him twice in the head before he left in the direction of the garage of the barracks. The gendarme draws his service weapon, and shoots twice, in the garage door. A knife was also found on the ground. The soldier has a few bruises and light scratches.
Very quickly, the prosecution opened a criminal investigation for attempted murder of a person in charge of authority. The prosecutor is considering all possibilities and taking the incident very seriously. But the survey shows from the first days that it is unlikely that an attack has taken place.
No colleague corroborates the version of the fifties, some details are murky. And the chief sergeant, policeman for 31 years and father of three children, ends up giving in to custody at the company of Toulouse Saint-Michel. He says he made it all up. But at the hearing 14 months later, he backpedaled and returned to his first version, he may have been attacked, which he gave in under pressure from investigators.
“The police is my whole life”
The prosecutor recalls that there is no longer any doubt that there was no assault that evening, that the two psychiatric experts reported a personality trouble of the defendant who fails to recognize the facts, that he represents a “obvious danger“. There is also this video found in his phone, that of the attack on a policeman in Cannes by an armed individual a few days before the facts.
The gendarme’s lawyer pleads for her client not to be deprived of exercising his profession, because it is “all his life“, his three children also want to be gendarmes. Me Ravyn Issa also takes over the liabilities of the non-commissioned officer, two previous incidents in his career. His accident when a gate fell on him, and above all an alleged assault by an armed individual of a knife at the Gare de Lyon in 2015. If this attack has not been proven, the soldier suffered a post-traumatic shock and he is being psychologically monitored.His hierarchy, his colleagues, he says, do not have ever endured. His superiors the tricky as”faithful” Corn “suspicious” and “Accustomed to unsubstantiated presumptions“.
The president does not retain the arguments of the lawyer. The 55-year-old man, who lives in Revel, is sentenced to one year’s imprisonment with a probationary reprieve of two years, obligation of care, ban on exercising his trade and carrying a weapon for five years and criminal record. The defense thought about appealing.