Brest: heavily alcoholic, he hits his neighbor with a baseball bat

His criminal record shows 14 mentions, more than half for cases of violence. Once again, it was this violence that led the 32-year-old defendant, born in Reunion, to the Brest Criminal Court on Tuesday January 18, 2022.

Friday, December 10, this father of two children, separated, returned from work. He says he went to the bar for drinks before returning home to downtown Brest. Next ?

He says he found his damaged door. And that when he heard a noise from a neighbor, located two floors above, he would have got angry. Would ridden with his baseball bat. To discuss first, before fighting with the resident. He said he was beaten with a bat. His injuries also caused a total incapacity for two days.

“I have a problem with alcohol”

The defendant’s explanations are vague. His blood alcohol level was 2 g/l of alcohol in the blood when the police checked him after his arrest following a call from a neighbor the same evening.

Why be ridden with a bat? “I don’t know”, the man will often reply to President Xavier Jublin, who will nevertheless have multiplied the questions to understand the course of the evening and the confrontation.

And the 32-year-old man noted: ” I have a problem with alcohol. “Alcohol doesn’t suit you, okay.” You know he can make you bad”, acts the president.

Return to detention

The 30-year-old says he regrets his behavior this Friday, December 10, “I made a paranoia« .

“He tells us that he wanted to communicate with his neighbor, how can you do it with 2 g of alcohol and a baseball bat”, pointed out the prosecutor. For whom a prison sentence is obvious, “because it is a danger for society”.

He requires a mixed sentence of 24 months in prison, including six months suspended probation for two years.

The court ultimately sentences the defendant to 18 months in prison, six of which were probationary suspended for two years, plus an obligation to care, to work or to undergo training, a ban on coming into contact with the victim, a ban on going to his former building and a ban on carrying or possessing a weapon.

At the end of the hearing, the man, in detention since December 12 (he had requested a referral of his case on December 14), returned to prison.

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