In a voice muffled by shame, Alain (1) apologizes barely audible to the victim and tries to explain his gesture: “I was going to cross after getting off the bus. She told me about it, but I didn’t understand what she was telling me. I pushed her with her left hand.”
A version that the president of the court, Christian Legay, struggles to believe as what he tells does not correspond to the gravity of the wounds of the septuagenarian. Indeed, Christiane suffers in particular from a cranio-facial trauma and received a six-day ITT.
Diagnosed schizophrenic and under treatment for several decadesAlain says he feels “threat” By the Mamy Trafic, which had simply asked him if everything was fine.
The scene could not be filmed
“I am tired of the nerves”he adds. His mother, present at the time of the facts, told investigators: “We tried with a lady to reason, but we couldn’t do anything.” If she claims that he has never struck her, Alain would have an easy insult when he is in crisis. “We are not here to deny or minimize the facts, but I want us to take into account who my client is”plead Master Florian Plébani.
Despite some fragility, Christiane found the strength to testify at the hearing. Since the assault, She has trouble eating and drinking. On the one hand because it suffers, but also because its dentures was broken during the assault, specifies its council, Maître Camille Luzi.
The surveillance cameras being out of service that day, the scene could not be filmed, but “Given the blue I have on the cheek, I think he hit me and not just pushed”advance the septuagenarian. She remembers that a lady warned him: “Be careful, he’s going to hit you.” Then the black hole.
“IM M’A MIS NOT”she breathes, signed to see “that there are such bad people”.
Very psychologically marked, Christiane does not think he can resume her role as “Mamy Traffic” at the start of the school year. An understandable decision, as pointed out in the prosecutor Marina Horlaville, because “Even when the body is cured, fear remains”.
Psychiatrist experts said that Alain, whose criminal record is a virgin, was partially responsible for his actions. The prosecutor had requested 10 months suspended prison sentence of two years. The court decided a lighter sentence, reducing The sanction at eight months suspended.
Alain will have to pay 2,500 euros as a provision to the victimas well as a symbolic euro to the city of Nice, which was a civil party. The final amount of moral and physical damage will be set next February.
