Judging a schizophrenic who has stopped treatment: this is the heavy task that the Meaux Criminal Court took on on Friday.
In the box: Ibrahima, 45, appeared for threats against his guardian and a guardianship judge.
The prosecutor's deputy Myriam Khouas recognized this: “The real difficulty in this case is the pathology of the defendant which cannot be ignored.
For around twenty years, he has suffered from a psychiatric illness, which is at the origin of the facts.”
It was last November that the forty-year-old – then out of treatment – made the threats.
The defendant, with his face closed and his arms crossed in the court box, did not hide it: he can no longer tolerate the monthly depot injections prescribed to him.
“I want to go down a light bulb.
The treatment tires me, it hurts my body, I want to work,” he asserted.
The accused already interned in psychiatry in the past
Ibrahima was taken into police custody for the first time last fall.
He had been there for a little over an hour.
And for good reason: due to his state of health, he had to be automatically hospitalized in a psychiatric department, due to “imminent danger”.
The two doctors who examined him a few weeks apart noted an alteration in his discernment.
But there is no question for them of talking about abolition, which would lead to criminal irresponsibility.
Hence the immediate appearance of Ibrahima, who did not hesitate to accuse his curator in front of the judges: “He stole everything from me.
Is he here to help me or put me in trouble?
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A measure intended to protect him in his daily life and to prevent him – among other things – from not spending all the money from his disabled adult allowance.
Concerning the threats made, in particular that of “doing the irreparable”, the defendant – a repeat offender – assured him: “I took it as a joke”.
Not really the analysis of the prosecutor who requested ten months in prison, with a committal warrant, as well as the revocation of five additional months, pronounced during a previous conviction: “He created a real feeling of insecurity among those he threatened.”
A situation that Me Clotilde Brémond, Ibrahima's lawyer, did not contest.
But she recalled: “My client is a sick man, who struggles with his pathology.
He did not directly threaten the curator.
His comments were against the service.
The people who try to help him become his targets.”
And the defense lawyer regretted “the limited reasoning of the prosecution”, which requested the incarceration of Ibrahima.
The judges handed down a sentence of ten months in prison, as well as the revocation of two additional months.
The defendant was imprisoned following the hearing.