Aunt Danielle exists. Her name is in fact Jeanine, and lives in Alençon where, from her house in rue Laperrière, she contrives at night to harass her neighbors through the party wall. Hammer blows, doorbell ringing, piano fortissimo, insults, slanderous remarks… The lady is 94 years old and all her head, as concluded by a psychiatric expert report having detected no alteration of discernment in her. On March 17, the Alençon criminal court sentenced her to a suspended sentence of seven months in prison, accompanied by a ban on “to appear in his street” for five years.
The victims, Yvan and Célia Hacherez, thought they were done with their ordeal. Nay. The sentence enforcement judge has just modified the applications of the judgment: the accused can finally stay in her house and take the part of the street which… does not pass in front of her neighbours. Raymond Devos, help!
Vain attempts at appeasement
A paroxysmal example of neighborhood disputes, the affair began seven years ago. Nursing assistant in a medical center, Yvan Hacherez had just moved into this house that had belonged to his grandparents; Jeanine had been living in the adjacent cottage for a few years. “She had the police sent the day I moved in, saying we were fussing around, he says. It was so stupid that there was a way to laugh about it. The problem is that it has never stopped since. » It even got worse.
To the above-mentioned noise nuisances have been added, over the years, a range of inconveniences made possible by the contiguity of the dwellings: spraying of weed killer on the neighboring strawberry plants, throwing of furniture over the fence, untimely activation of the Boiler emitting smoke, spitting in the midst of the Covid crisis… If poisoning the lives of others is an art, “Tatie” Jeanine has everything of an esthete.
The Hacherez ended up installing makeshift beds at another neighbor’s house five months ago
What does she have to reproach these parents of a 14-month-old child? To the police officers who questioned her, the former notary clerk notably mentioned the“assassination” of his rabbit. “Assassination, downright!, strangles Yvan Hacherez by appropriating in turn the criminal terminology. This close that there is no motive and that the body has not been found. If I had wanted to make someone disappear down the street, it certainly wouldn’t have been a rabbit. » The man wants to believe that his priceless neighbor was eyeing his house, and that she would not have accepted not being able to acquire it. Yvan Hacherez also explains that he “tried everything” to put a stop to the nocturnal ramdam: conciliation, indifference, threats and even a graduated response with hammer blows – “It only stimulated her”. At one time, he even surprised himself to feel “a form of Stockholm syndrome” feeling sorry for this childless old lady.
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