The public prosecutor's office on Monday requested an appeal in Caen for the conviction of an engineer who admitted to having tortured cats, but at a lesser penalty than at first instance, drugs having impaired his judgment.
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"
I will ask the court to retain the alteration
" of discernment by "
this molecule known to have side effects such as disorders of drive control
", declared the deputy general David Pamart, "
it had an impact
". He required six months in prison with a suspended sentence against the former number two of a Renault Trucks factory in the Caen agglomeration. The court will deliver its decision on August 18.
On June 27, 2018, the defendant, unemployed since the case was publicized, was sentenced to 18 months in prison, including nine months for having dislocated or broken the legs of 15 cats between the end of May and the end of June 2018. Between the end of May and the end of June 2018. Between 2015 and June 2018, this engineer had taken Neupro then Requip against Parkinson's disease from which he suffers.
The public prosecutor's office requested that the accused's sentence be confused with that he is carrying out as part of a second sentence in July 2018 for similar facts on other cats (two years, one of which was suspended).
No abolition of discernment
For the general prosecutor's office, on the other hand, there is no abolition of discernment because the engineer's behavior was “
premeditated
”.
He ordered cages to try to trap cats on the internet.
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David Pamart also criticized the defendant for having "
freed himself from medical warnings
" who regularly asked him if he had side effects such as strange behavior.
But apart from the case of a patient who tortured cats in Argentina while he was being treated with the same molecule, the scientific literature only mentioned as a side effect that addiction to games, hypersexuality or 'compulsive shopping, pleaded defense lawyer Dominique Mari.
“
At no time was my client informed that the medication he was taking could poison him,
” she said before asking for his release.
The impairment of this man's discernment, due to these drugs, was recognized on February 22 by the Caen correctional court, which sentenced him to a 500 euros fine for having killed a dog. The father of four had received death threats in 2018 after his trial.