Did Houda A. manipulate her victims before putting them to sleep with an anxiolytic and stealing their money and bank details? This is one of the questions that the Seine-et-Marne assize court in Melun will have to answer this weekend.
This 40-year-old Meldoise, tried since Tuesday for poisoning and recidivism of harmful substance administration, is suspected of having drugged three men, as well as her own mother.
An accident on the A4 motorway
"I did not know that I had signed a power of attorney," Jacques repeated repeatedly, stripped of 24,000 euros and victim of a road accident, following the absorption of Xanax, in September 2016. "When I found my father in the hospital, he looked like a 10 year old child, he was sucking his thumb, he couldn't stand up. They put him in an artificial coma because he had aggressive reactions, ”said his son. Before clarifying: "There have been a lot of purchases on the Internet when my father does not know how to go over them".
Jacques had met Houda A. in Meaux, at a neighbor's house, herself met on a bench, in July 2016. “We saw each other again. Houda told me that his girlfriend was stealing it. She asked to be able to put money into my account. She was nice, so I accommodated her, I went to the bank with her and I signed a paper. But I didn't know it was a proxy. ”
A stroll in Paris and thousands of euros flown away later, the friendly relationship was broken. Two months later, Houda A. appeared again at Jacques' house. "I brought her in because I wanted her to explain to me why she had stolen me. I went to the bathroom, she made a coffee, I came back, I drank my chicory and after that, I don't remember anything any more. ” The following day, Jacques - drugged at Xanax - was the victim of an accident on the A4 motorway.
His ex-brother-in-law among the victims
A year earlier, it was Amar, the brother of Houda's ex-companion, who found himself in bad shape. He also wanted to help the accused, by paying her two nights at a hotel in Meaux, in September 2015. “My wife told me to help her. I accompanied her to the bedroom to drop off her things. She offered me a whiskey. I drank it. I washed my hands in the bathroom, I opened the door to leave and then nothing, ”mimed Amar, at the helm.
If he lost the details of his evening, his brother has forgotten nothing. Very upset to testify before the assize court, Mohamed got angry on several occasions: "It was Houda who called me to tell me that my brother did not want to leave the room. I found him in his underwear, in the middle of bottles of alcohol, I don't know what happened between them ”.
Mohamed had brought unconscious Amar to his home. Two days later, the latter had to be hospitalized, while his bank account saw disappear thousands of euros.
New versions at the hearing
Houda A., who has been stamping in the box since the hearing started, spoke at the end of the day. And it was a particularly difficult interrogation that President Dominique Legrand had to conduct.
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The accused continued to digress. Not to mention that she delivered many inconsistent details and embroidered new versions, live in front of the court. The climax was reached when she assured that - the day before the accident - Jacques had threatened her with a knife, so that she would undress. This is where she would have put Xanax in her chicory "to make him fall asleep". Words never made during the three years of investigation.
Victimization, attempt at manipulation and seduction, search for complicity: Dr. Vincent Mahé had described, that very morning, an “egocentric” accused and mentioned “an emotional kaleidoscope and a discourse with highly variable geometry, to have control over the relationship ".