“”The voices told me to do it. ” Farid Belghalia, 44, appears to have deliberately struck his neighbor with his carin the parking lot of a Ribécourt-Dreslincourt supermarket. He no longer took his treatment at the time of the facts. But the court considers him as being judged.
It was March 10 in the early afternoon. The supermarket vigil contacted the gendarmes, to report these facts. “The overturned person has not reported, describes the court. The cameras captured the scene by far, during which he was projected on the ground. He was not injured. We see the registration of the car, on the hood from which the victim ended up. ”
“He lives in the third of my building,” the victim told the gendarmes. Why, according to him, his neighbor rushed to him with his Renault Mégane Green? “In the morning, I heard a croak crow, I told him” your mouth “. And this gentleman thought he was targeted. ” At the helm, the defendant confirms.
“The voices told me to take action”
“He threatened me,” continues Farid Belghalia. The voices in my head told me to take action. I took on me for a month and a half. Whenever I put myself on the balcony, he shouted “I am the one who makes the law here”. He annoys everyone in the neighborhood. I spilled it but not much. ” According to the referent of the social landlord of the building, this neighbor does not pose no more problems.
What was Farid Belghalia doing in this supermarket car park? “I was waiting for a friend who did not come, the voice told me to take revenge,” he replied. It was nothing serious in his eyes. The victim also minimized. The president recalls that his head could have hit the sidewalk.
The defendant had not taken his injection for three months. “It tired me a lot. But yes, I needed it. I got back in detention. ” Part of the facts is explained by his schizophrenia, but not everything, estimates the expert. In general, the voices tell the defendant to hurt themselves, hence the scarifications and the suicide attempt by hanging, the days before, in detention.
A week earlier, the defendant had applied for release. What the court had refused.
“I will no longer miss my treatments,” he promises
In cohabitation with a woman under curatorship, he is the father of four children. It presents an incapacity rate of 78%. His father in Beauvais, but also his mother and brother in Le Mans, can host him.
“I will no longer miss my treatments until the end of my days,” he concludes.
“How did it get there,” said the prosecutor. He said about the victim: “I saw him as a devil with horns.” We did not find a trace of the friend he was waiting for. He fled without helping, as the voices told him. Before leaving to alcoolize himself at home. The shock was violent for the victim projected in the grass. Fortunately, it was nothing broken, but he was in shock. ”
The defendant has twelve mentions to the criminal record. “When he hears voices …”, notes the prosecutor, who asks that the court takes into account his alteration of discernment. It requires 18 months in prison, including 12 months suspended probationary, obligation to care, contact for contact, maintaining detention. It also requires the revocation of the previous stay, up to six months. “It is too early for a development,” she considers, before requesting the confiscation of the vehicle.
“He suffers from schizophrenia”
Maître Jonathan Sorriaux, for the defense, describes a context of unhealthy neighborhood. “He had no intention of attacking his neighbor’s life. He regrets the facts and is aware of their gravity. ”
“The common thread is the voices. It’s called schizophrenia. He suffers from auditory hallucinations. This handicap requires heavy treatment with injections. There is only a dangerousness in the event of a break in care and treatment. People diagnosed with schizophrenics pass less before the courts because they are neat. ”
“Since the 19th century, we know that we haven’t enclosed madmen. Prison is not a place of care. The risk of suicide is more important. All the more in case of mental disorders. Keeping it in detention is putting it in danger. He needs treatment. “
“The external placement would allow him to take this treatment,” concludes Maître Sorriaux. There is a place in an establishment. Otherwise, a semi-liberty diet would also allow him to follow the treatment. ”
He will receive the sentence required in terms of the duration: six months firm and revocation of the stay up to six months. Or twelve months in total. A firm part for which he can benefit from an external placement. His vehicle is confiscated.
