How to trust Gino D. when he assures that the death threats made to his ex-partner were "only words"?
“With his criminal record, everything he can say will be called into question anyway,” says his lawyer, Philippe Tabart, almost resigned.
It must be said that with 37 mentions in his criminal record at 32, it is more difficult to convince the court which, this Wednesday, sentenced him to a one-year prison sentence.
The story of Gino D. is, according to his lawyer, that of a “skinned alive” with a battered childhood.
An imprisoned father, an absent mother… From his 6 months to the age of 15, he spent almost half of his life between foster families and homes, before ending up on the streets.
Gino D. admits it himself: he is "quite impulsive".
Since the end of adolescence, convictions for theft, violence - with or without a weapon -, escape, contempt… The one who at 15 years old dreamed of joining the Chantilly horse racing school has finally taken the path to 'ordinary delinquency.
"I will kill you one by one"
So inevitably, the prison, Gino D. begins to know.
In April 2020, he was imprisoned in Beauvais for violence committed against the mother of his child.
Frustrated at not being able to attend the birth of his son in May, he obtains a cell phone in detention to ask his ex-partner for news.
But after a chaotic relationship, she doesn't want to hear from him anymore.
The thirty-something then insults the young woman of 22 years and threatens her as well as her own son.
"I will kill you one by one," he wrote one day.
"These are words that have exceeded my thoughts, pleads the young man.
It's true that I said them, but he's my son.
I love him and I would never hurt him ”.
Today, Gino D. says he wants to change and does not want to spend “his life behind bars”.
"I don't want my child to have to relive what I went through"
But once again the question of the reliability of the defendant arises, also convicted of possession of narcotics that would have been entrusted to him during the walk to the Beauvais remand center.
"The problem is that he does not perceive the consequences of his actions", slice the prosecutor, Aude Laroyenne, who detects in him a "disturbing personality".
"He was imprisoned for violence against the victim and still made the effort to provide a phone in detention to threaten her," recalls the magistrate.
When asked by the president of the court to know how he imagines his future after detention, Gino D. has little certainty, apart from perhaps one: "I do not want my child to have to relive what I am doing. 've lived.
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