His hearing has finally taken place. Three years after assaulting Marine Lorphelin and her companion Christophe Malmezac, Thibaud W. was heard by the Lyon investigating chamber on Friday January 29, 2021, reports The world. Suffering from "autistic behavior always installed" and with schizophrenia, experts say, the accused admitted the facts. Before explaining during his hearing: "I don't have the exact memory of what happened, I was no longer myself."
If psychiatrists have reported thathe had developed a passion and then an obsession for the former beauty queen, the young man who followed all his actions through social networks said: "I have no more fixation ". Thus, Thibaut W. was declared criminally irresponsible "due to the abolition of discernment". However, the investigating judge considered: "The circumstances of the assault are a criminal offense of a diagnosed attempted homicide." And this, while the lawyer for Miss France 2013 pointed out that the attacker had followed his client from Grenoble to Lyon with a knife. Recognized "undisputed author of the facts, to the prejudice of victims recognized by the courts", the latter will render its decision on February 12, 2021.
Marine Lorphelin and her companion absent during the hearing
Following the hearing, which Marine Lorphelin and her fiancé did not attend, the Lyon Public Prosecutor's Office asked "the extension of security measures for a period of twenty years against Thibaud W.", report our colleagues. For his part, the Advocate General demanded that the accused continue his treatment program, that he be prohibited from coming into contact with the two victims as well as from carrying a weapon. "to minimize the risk of recidivism, in the very particular context of criminal irresponsibility", can we read in the columns of the newspaper.
As a reminder, Marine Lorphelin and her companion Christophe were attacked by Thibaut W. at the exit of a Lyon metro station, on the night of January 1, 2018. Fervent admirer of the future doctor, the man repeatedly stabbed his companion who could count on the beautiful brunette to provide him with first aid. Arrested a few days after the tragedy, the man had been interned.
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