A 45-year-old resident of Angoulême was sentenced Wednesday to a 6-month probationary period for having made 250 malicious calls to the gendarmerie brigades of Loudun and Châtellerault, in Vienne.
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The facts took place between March and December 2020. In mid-December, he was finally taken into custody after threatening to come and blow up the premises of the Loudun gendarmerie.
Tried at the bar of the Angoulême Criminal Court, he said that he was angry with a gendarme of this brigade who had checked him while intoxicated at the wheel in July 2012. Following this check, his license had been canceled, which prevented him from finding a job, he told the court.
Since then, he has been ruminating on this episode, against the backdrop of alcohol problems.
"
All that is dark ideas,
" he repeated.
"
The only way to calm this anxiety is to make these phone
calls
...
", supported his lawyer Anabelle Bouttin.
The psychiatrist considered that he was "
accessible to a criminal sanction
".
Already sentenced several times, he received a 6-month probationary period.
He must also take care of himself and pay 500 € for moral damage to the annoyed gendarme.
