A fifty-something was sentenced Friday, May 14 in Angoulême to three years in prison, including one year with a reinforced probationary suspension, for assaulting police officers, one with a sickle, the other with a whim, while the officials intervened in a scene of domestic violence.
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Sunday afternoon, May 9, the police were called to Angoulême by the partner of the defendant, a 51-year-old Portuguese mason, in France since 2013. “
Come quickly, he wants to cut me in two with a chainsaw!
She said over the phone. When they arrived at the couple's home, after talking to the woman, the police wanted to handcuff the drunken man, who then saw red and took out a sickle hidden behind his back.
He made "
a determined and circular gesture
", in the direction of one of the peacekeepers, described one of them. The policeman stepped back just in time, and a colleague attempted to kick the man up and down. But the sickle caught his knee, injuring him, as the 50-year-old again tried to sickle another officer. Placed on the ground, the madman gave a head butt to one of the police officers while struggling. They had to use their taser three times to handcuff him.
The police “
could have misunderstood my client's gesture. Far from wanting to attack them, he wanted to put down the sickle and it degenerated
”, pleaded at the hearing Me Rachid Rahmani, lawyer of the defendant. The police "
have the feeling that it was an attempted homicide or fatal blows
," said Lionel Béthune de Moro, their lawyer. The policeman injured in the knee was prescribed 15 days of ITT, the one hit in the head four days.
Already sentenced in 2019 for violence against police officers, the defendant was placed in police custody on Sunday, and was tried this Friday in immediate appearance at the Angoulême criminal court. At the hearing, his companion highlighted his alcohol problems. In addition to the prison sentence following the requisitions, the court pronounced an obligation of care, a ban to come into contact with his companion, and to hold a weapon.
