A 40-year-old convinced of being "
harassed
" by "
nanotechnology
" and who had violently assaulted a stranger was declared criminally irresponsible on Tuesday May 31 by the Paris Court of Appeal and hospitalized under duress, we learned from a source. judicial.
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The investigating chamber "
said that there were sufficient charges against the person concerned to have committed the acts concerned
" but declared him "
criminally irresponsible
" and "
ordered his placement in hospitalization without consent
", specified this source to AFP.
The court also pronounced against him "
a ban on holding or carrying weapons for twenty years
", according to the same source.
On December 7, 2017, in a street in the 2nd arrondissement of Paris, the forty-something had stabbed a 27-year-old student whom he did not know.
The suspect, a temporary worker living with a roommate, was arrested and then hospitalized and a judicial investigation opened for attempted murder.
At the beginning of 2018, a first expert concluded that the judgment was simply impaired at the time of the attack, opening the possibility of a trial.
But subsequently, two other collegiate expert reports concluded that his judgment was annulled, and therefore that it was impossible to impose a criminal sanction on him.
Criminal irresponsibility
During the hearing on May 17 before the investigating chamber, the public prosecutor's office, if it had indeed concluded that there were "
sufficient charges
" against the defendant and recognized his dangerousness, had concluded to 'abolition.
He had asked the chamber to declare the forties criminally irresponsible, with maintenance of compulsory hospitalization and prohibition of carrying a weapon.
“
The Assize Court is not competent
” for this procedure, argued the Advocate General, considering that it would be “
absurd to wait two or three years
” for a hearing at the Assizes to “
conclude on the abolition
".
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The defense lawyer, Me Garance Croizille, had in turn pleaded criminal irresponsibility, stressing that at the time of the acting out, her client, treated for chronic psychopathologies since 2008, was in "
acute crisis
" .
Not having had access to the motivation of the court, "
we reserve the right to lodge an appeal in cassation
", reacted Tuesday Pierre de Combles de Nayves, the victim's lawyer.
“
A hearing expedited in 45 minutes at the request of the court does not make it possible to understand the complexity of such a situation
,” he added.
The defendant's lawyer could not be reached by AFP on Tuesday.