When Nicolas R. sees the beacons of the gendarmerie light up in his rear view mirror, this Monday, May 23 in Précy-sur-Oise, he sees red.
Because at 26, this Creillois feels harassed by the military.
So he gets out of his vehicle, puts himself in a guard position and shouts at the men in blue, inviting them to fight it out.
The young man, however, has just run a stop sign, without putting on his indicator.
But he still has not digested the seizure of a motorcycle which he considers unjustified, by the same gendarmerie brigade.
There followed a litany of insults and threats of all kinds which led him this Wednesday before the court of Senlis for contempt of agents and rebellion.
He was sentenced to one year in prison with a six-month suspended sentence, a sentence he will serve at home, under the supervision of an electronic bracelet.
He is also prohibited from contacting the victims, whom he will have to compensate 500 euros.
1.80 m, 130 kg … “We kept our distance”
"I'm going to take care of you now, I'm going to smoke you," he said on the day of the incident to one of the two gendarmes who arrested him.
And the man imposes.
1.80 m for 130 kg, a size that pushes the military to retreat.
“We kept our distance, he advanced with closed fists”, specifies one of them at the bar.
The situation will eventually calm down, once the soldiers have threatened to use a taser.
But the second gendarme says he feared for his family.
“He mentioned reprisals on our barracks.
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"I was badly awake"
Words that the main interested party does not deny.
“I was badly awake, he justifies.
I shouldn't have, it's inexcusable, now there's no going back.
Yes, I have a full record, but I've never been convicted of violence.
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The president reminds him that he still received a month in prison in 2018 for death threats.
For his lawyer, this justifies nothing.
" Four years ago !
We cannot say that it is customary for the fact.
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He evokes an accumulation of conflict situations with the gendarmes.
“I feel persecuted, they always find something.
“What make the prosecutor, Michel Mazars, sigh.
“Do you really think that the gendarmes have only that to do?
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