He did everything to make the audience unbearable.
Three inmates from Meaux-Chauconin prison were on trial - this Friday - for violence committed in the exercise yard on February 8.
The three men, aged 27 and 29, were also appearing for violence committed against police officers at the Meaux police station on February 15.
If two of the defendants were calm in the box, the third entered shouting and threatening: “I'm going to get out, I'm going to become ruthless.
I have no accountability to you.
You persist in the same things.
There are fights in all the prisons in France,” he shouted in substance.
On several occasions, President Isabelle Florentin-Dombre had to reframe him, threatening to judge him in his absence.
The judges watched two videos, without the class present in the courtroom being able to see them.
A first showed the violence committed in a meeting on a prison inmate, who was punched and kicked in the face.
For a bad look or inappropriate behavior, it was not clear.
The victim - who had tried to take refuge before suffering a wave of violence - did not become a civil party.
“He could have died”
The second video showed what happened at the police station.
If the public present still saw nothing, they had plenty of time to hear - for long minutes - the outrages uttered in a loop.
From the box, the third defendant could not help but comment: “Look closely at the gratuitous violence”.
The other two preferred to keep a low profile.
“I couldn’t manage my emotions.
I'm shocked to see myself like this, to hear all these insults.
I’m sorry,” one of them regretted.
His explanation: that February 15, he was awaiting a sentence modification and he found himself in police custody, for the violence in the exercise yard.
“I am qualified, I have diplomas, I am working on my behavior, this will not happen again,” he promised.
The president tried to understand: “You were all screaming in the cell for hours.
The police asked you to stop typing.
They explained to you that you were going to be separated.
Why don't you comply?
» And the young man - who was struggling to keep calm » - explained that his two friends wanted duvets.
The second defendant presented himself as a victim of the police.
The third - already sentenced to twelve years in prison for fatal blows by an assize court - preferred to remain silent.
Before resuming his vociferations.
So much so that he was kicked out of the box.
The prosecutor's deputy Noémie Béguin requested three years in prison, with a committal warrant, against the defendants, with a long criminal record, for the violence against the detainee and for the rebellion: "The prohibition of violence is the cornerstone of living together is the first prohibition.
There is absolutely no self-defense, it is three men on a fourth who is on the ground.
He could have died.
They all make the choice to remain in violence, I make the choice to exclude them from society.”
The judges sentenced the trio to two years in prison, one of which was closed, with a committal warrant.