A little appeasement for the Kouchner-Duhamel siblings.
Simon, the last child of the famous political scientist Olivier Duhamel was released from prison this Monday evening.
The 32-year-old young man was tried in the afternoon in Toulon (Var), in immediate appearance, for a series of violence and degradation while intoxicated on March 23 in Sanary-sur-Mer, where he has sought refuge since her mother's death in 2017.
After 2h30 of trial, the defendant was sentenced to three years in prison, two of which were suspended, which will allow him to attend the imminent birth of his little girl.
“Your sentence is adaptable.
It's a bet we are making!
I hope that these three weeks of detention will have made you understand that it was essential that you follow therapy… ”launched the president of the criminal court, bluntly recalling the“ gravity of the facts ”.
"You could have seriously hurt someone!"
»Lectured the magistrate.
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Simon Duhamel, injured child of "La Familia grande", tried in court for violence and degradation
His partner and his sister Aurore had made the trip to Toulon. Not his adoptive father, Olivier Duhamel, who last week admitted facts of incest on his stepson, "Victor" Kouchner, in front of the Brigade for the protection of minors of the Paris judicial police.
At the hearing, Simon Duhamel kept a low profile in the face of his seven victims, still in shock four weeks after the incident.
“I had the fear of my life, I thought it was a jihadist who wanted to hold me up!
»Recounted one of them who has not been able to sleep since.
One of the civil party lawyers insisted on the trauma of his clients, hit twice by the car borrowed by Simon Duhamel, before he left, "staggering", "extremely excited", armed with a handle. paint roller and hit the passing vehicles.
To all, the dark thirty-something with long black hair tied up has apologized and assured that he would not contest any of the requests for financial compensation.
"I drank a bottle of rum"
For the explanations, however, they will come back. From the day of March 23, Simon Duhamel lost his memory. “I don't remember anymore,” he repeated to all the president's questions without ever disputing the facts. Born in Chile in 1989, Simon Duhamel has made no secret of his disorders and addictions to alcohol, cannabis and cocaine. “That day, we were painting the little girl's future bedroom with a friend and we had a barbecue at noon. I drank a bottle of rum and I went to a wine merchant to buy champagne, ”he admitted. It took a night in a drunken cell before he could be heard by the police.
Simon Duhamel is not his first confrontation with Justice.
The tormented former teenager was sentenced in 2012 for driving without a license and in 2016 to six months suspended prison sentence for violence against a former partner.
The psychological expertise carried out in pre-trial detention did not reveal any mental illness.
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Despite everything, Simon Duhamel affirms that the publication of "La Familia Grande", the book of his sister Camille Kouchner, which reveals the incest of Olivier Duhamel on his twin brother "Victor" weakened him. “It was a shock. An explosion. He was in great demand by journalists and experienced it as an assault, ”explained his lawyer, Me Bérénice de Warren. "I was cooking with my father when I learned that ..." simply indicated the future dad, who has agreed to be followed by a psychiatrist and an addictologist. The court sentenced him to an obligation of care. As well as paying around 10,000 euros in damages to his victims with whom he has no right to come into contact. The defendant also received a driving license suspension.