The bailiff had gone to his apartment in Cergy in the morning for a seizure of movable property.
In the afternoon, the 59-year-old carpenter came to Pontoise's office to do battle with… a saw.
He struck a dozen blows at the bailiff, injuring her, attacking the receptionist in passing, before being calmed down by a clerk.
Moïse C., found himself this Friday facing victims still in shock.
He was sentenced by immediate appearance to two years in prison, one of which was firm, and placed under a warrant of committal.
The case begins Thursday morning when the bailiff of the study of Me Jean-Pierre Tristan telephones the carpenter to inform him that he will be the subject of a seizure.
For years, he has refused to pay the compensatory allowance and the alimony owed to his ex-wife.
He explains that he is absent, which does not prevent the usher from opening the door with a locksmith.
The victim hit ten times
In the afternoon, after another telephone conversation, Moïse C. takes his car, direction the study of Pontoise.
He carries a saw along.
He has a cutter in his pocket.
There, he asks to see the bailiff who comes to his house in the morning.
As soon as she arrives, he throws himself on her and hits her about ten times with the toothed side of his saw.
An employee at the reception tries to intervene.
He grabs her by the hair and pushes her back violently, then hits the usher again.
The intervention of a clerk, alerted by the "blood-curdling" screams, will be decisive.
He manages to calm the man who leaves the premises, appeased.
He will be arrested a few moments later by the police in his car.
The saw next to him.
"I see his face filled with hatred with the saw"
“I am devastated.
I do not sleep anymore.
Every time I close my eyes I see her face filled with hatred with the saw.
I can't talk about it without crying.
I am afraid of being afraid of others from now on… ”confides Me S., the judicial officer, whose injuries on the neck, back, stomach, hands, were miraculously limited, causing him 3 days of incapacity total working time (ITT).
Psychologically, it's a different story.
The expert who delivered him 10 days psychological ITT, describes a major repercussion and an emotional shock, evoking attacks of anxiety and panic, nightmares.
Her colleague at the reception was just as shocked.
"I saw this saw going up in the air and my colleague running and trying to take refuge in a corner," she confides at the helm.
He was in a terrible state of nerves.
I said to myself I will take punches but I will save my colleague's life.
He grabbed me by the hair and pulled me away.
Today, I hardly sleep any more, I don't eat anymore… ”She bursts into tears.
" It is the horror.
"
"This apartment is my retirement"
Moïse C., calm and composed, rather distant, explains his gesture with a burst of anger.
“I started working at the age of 12.
I managed to buy a house, then an apartment.
The bailiffs, that made me angry.
This apartment is my retirement.
I went crazy.
I am sorry.
I did not think.
"
- Why the saw?
asks the president.
“I took it like that.
Because, in the study, there may be people ... just in case.
To defend myself… ”- And if no one had intervened, how far would you have gone?
"Fortunately the gentleman arrived to talk to me a little ..."
"It is the entire profession that is targeted"
"There is no questioning on the part of the defendant, it is maddening and disturbing", underlined Me Stéphanie Marcou, the lawyer of the bailiff.
“She was afraid of dying.
When you are hit with a saw, there are no other words.
It is a physical miracle.
On the psychological level, it's something else ... "
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The lawyer also represents the other employee of the office and the clerk, as well as the office as a legal person and the departmental chamber of bailiffs.
“It is the entire profession that is targeted.
The judicial officers are the last link in the chain which allows us to live in a society where court decisions are executed ”, underlines the lawyer who evokes the case of the ex-wife of the accused who is still awaiting the payment of € 80,000 in compensatory benefits, a defendant convicted definitively for abandonment of his family.
"Without a future for a stroke of madness"
"It was the gesture of a desperate man", in reaction to the seizure "which he thinks unfair", pleaded the defense which assures its "sincere" apologies.
“He lost his house.
He is going to lose his companion who finds herself on the street with him.
He had created his company more than thirty years ago and finds himself without a future for a stroke of madness ”, she underlines, adding that the psychiatrist expert considered that the discernment of Moïse C. was altered at the time of the facts.
“When it calmed down, everything was back to normal.
He needs psychological counseling.
There will then be no new acting out.
"
