Eyes fixed on the ground, looking pitiful, Yann M. is determined to take responsibility.
One more step in the legal and prison journey of this 42-year-old man, whose record has around twenty entries, who finds himself this Monday before the Senlis court (Oise) for acts of violence against a woman but also of multiple insults directed at the gendarmes who came to arrest him.
“I came to take my time,” he says.
In prison, I would have time to think.
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His lawyer, however, pleads for leniency.
“His journey oscillates between detention and outing, the solution is not to exclude him from society, as has been done until now, you can see that it did not work,” underlines the criminal lawyer.
Not enough to raise eyebrows among the judges who followed the prosecutor's requisitions to the letter by sentencing Yann M. to 18 months in prison, six of which were suspended for a period of two years.
“Yes, I’m being filmed, so what?
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This Tuesday, February 27, it's snack time for a worker who is taking his break in his truck, parked in a street in Gouvieux.
Suddenly, an altercation breaks out before his eyes.
On the sidewalk, three individuals, a woman and two men, visibly drunk, are arguing before his eyes.
He decides to call for help and intervene, while sheltering the woman who has just received a punch in the face from one of his drinking companions: Yann M.
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On their arrival, the gendarmes laid hands on Yann M. whom they decided to take to Creil hospital in view of his alcoholic state.
The beginning of a long litany of insults targeting the military but also their mothers.
Once in the emergency department, the man raises a chair towards the doctor who examines him before insulting him then spitting on him.
However, it does not stop there.
While the gendarmes were forced to handcuff his ankles to get him into their van, Yann M. still tried to headbutt them.
Relying on images from the body-worn cameras of the police, the president of the court will draw up a long list of uninterrupted names of birds between 3:37 p.m. and 4:28 p.m.
“Yes, I’m being filmed, so what?
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Given his condition, the defendant also says he has a lot of memories.
“Alcohol doesn’t make you intelligent, I was in a bad situation,” he tries to justify.
But that doesn't excuse anything, I'm really ashamed to be here.
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