A man suspected of having sent death threats to 42 deputies from all parties at the beginning of March was remanded in custody on Thursday March 18 by the Paris Criminal Court pending his trial scheduled for April 15.
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The 34-year-old suspect, who was to be tried in court immediately after his custody and who disputes the facts, had asked for time to prepare his defense.
The court ordered his placement in pre-trial detention "
in view of the risk of repeating the facts and the insufficient guarantees of representation
", in accordance with the requisitions of the prosecution.
Sentenced in 2018 for "
repeated death threats
", the defendant, a meal delivery man for mobile applications, will also have to undergo a psychiatric expertise.
Graduated from a master's degree in management, he was arrested Tuesday in a social hotel in Vincennes (Val-de-Marne) where he has lived for more than a year.
His lawyer, Me Charles Ohlgusser, pleaded for the placement under judicial supervision of his client, evicted from his home in 2018, two years after a burnout while he had a good position in a trading company.
The man, born in Cameroon and arrived in France at the age of 5, is suspected of having sent email threats to 42 deputies from all sides, including André Chassaigne (PCF), between March 5 and 6, Éric Ciotti (LR) or Alexis Corbière (LFI).
"
You are going to pay, the French are going to give you a party of arrogant people
" was it in particular written in these emails.
Only elected officials whose names begin with the letters C or M have received these emails, a parliamentary source told AFP, referring to the act "
of clearly unbalanced
".
The President of the National Assembly, Richard Ferrand, who was not the recipient of these threats, had reported the facts to the Paris prosecutor's office in application of article 40 of the code of criminal procedure, requiring any authority with knowledge of 'a crime or an offense to report it to justice.
An investigation for "
threats of death or dangerous harm to people against elected officials
", entrusted to the brigade for the repression of delinquency in persons (BRDP), had been opened on March 9.
