He is presented as a “disruptive element in the Belvédère district, in Torcy”, in the words of Isabelle Verissimo, the president of the Meaux criminal court who was judging – on Friday – a forty-year-old for “home invasion and violence against a vulnerable person”. .
From the box, the defendant has constantly contested the offenses, believing that the victim - jealous - is angry with him.
He insisted that he did not punch him ten times in the face and did not pull his hair on February 14.
Police officers from the Torcy police station intervened the next day at the latter's home, located in a sector other than that of Belvédère.
And there, they discovered Bala N. on the landing, alongside a locksmith, busy changing the lock on the front door.
“I forgot my keys inside.
I wanted my things back,” we managed to understand while listening to the Torcean’s explanations.
This is because the hearing was complicated to follow, the forty-year-old speaking very quickly, in an aggressive tone, drowning in details unrelated to the facts.
“On Valentine's Day, I was with another woman at her house.
She was jealous,” he blurted out amid a whole jumble of explanations.
“I didn’t agree with him coming back”
If the bonds of friendship brought them together for a time, it seems that the accused - a consumer of alcohol, cannabis, cocaine and crack - was staying with the victim.
This 56-year-old woman - under reinforced guardianship like Bala N. - had the courage to testify in court: “It was 7:30 in the morning, he was angry, he was with his friend in the living room, I locked in my room.
He broke down the door, he hit me until I gave him the keys, he ripped out the phone plug, he broke the phone in two,” the mother said.
After her attack, she put a coat over her pajamas, before running away: “I went to my ex-partner who lives ten minutes away, so that he could take me to the police station.
We had the lock changed on the evening of the 14th.
I didn’t agree with him coming back.”
The victim's daughter, who also happens to be her co-curator, as well as her son had been alerted - a few days earlier - by the family doctor, worried about his patient.
Me Laëtitia Joffrin, the civil party's lawyer, explained that her client - now welcomed by relatives - had not returned home, "so impressed was the scene of violence".
And to detail: “She, for a time, voluntarily hosted this gentleman.
They're not a couple.
My client's family had been trying to get him out of the house for several days.
It wasn't the first time.
He could stay all night on his landing.
She brought him in out of pity and because it caused big problems with the neighbors.”
The prosecutor's deputy Myriam Khouas requested six months in prison, to be served on semi-freedom, as well as a ban on appearing in Torcy for three years.
Me Caroline Desré, the defendant's lawyer, highlighted the distortion between her client's behavior at the hearing and the conclusions of the psychiatric expertise... indicating that everything was fine.
The judges handed down a sentence of eight months in prison, with a committal warrant, as well as the revocation of an additional six months in prison imposed during a previous conviction.
Bala N. is banned from appearing in Torcy for three years.