Tuesday evening, a woman drives home in Villenave d’Ornon, when she parks, a man opens his door and suddenly gets into his carhe points her with a gun and he order down. The victim does not see that it is a plastic toy, and runs.
The aggressor then branches off, with the stolen car, on the ring road and finds himself in a traffic jam. The owner of the car having kept the key in her purse, it cannot restart and decides to attack motorists caught in the same traffic jam. He manages to open the door of the car of a man over 70 years old who manages to escape. “I saw him get out of a car completely across in front of me, I thought he had killed the driver” explains the septuagenarian still in shock at the hearing this Thursday evening.
All these motorists alert the police who manage to challenge the poitevin. He is immediately taken into custody. early Wednesday night.
I just wanted to scare you
The man has already 25 convictions on his criminal recordhe apologizes at the hearing “I do not know what happend to me” and speaks directly to the victims: “I just wanted to scare you I wouldn’t have done you any harm”. “It’s easy to say now!” replies his first victim in tears before the president asks for calm. The 30-year-old suffers from a post-traumatic shocklike two other victims, she admits to being afraid to go home at night “He attacked me outside the door of my house” and says she is relieved to know that he does not live here and that he no longer has the right to come here.
What will not have been explained during the hearing are the reasons for these repeated gestures. The man was departed from Poitiers and missed his connection for Rodez. He says he wanted to buy drugs at Bordeaux station and his money was stolen. “But why buy a gun and hold up motorists?” asks the president before continuing “when you steal two motorhomes a little earlier is it to go to Rodez?” “I was no longer myself” will be the only explanatory premise.
One year firm and two with probation
In his box the aggressor is also in tears “I stayed 10 years in prison, I promised my son to stay with him now, no prison please judge! But in the face of risk of recurrence, the court decides to place him in detention for a year. He is also sentenced to two others with suspended probation, prohibition to appear in Gironde, to hold a weapon, obligation to work and to repair the damage of the victims.