The trial of a 45-year-old man who pretended to be a substitute teacher on Tuesday and had given lessons in a primary school in Douai was postponed to April 29 on Friday, pending a psychiatric report.
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The defendant, already convicted several times for theft, sexual assault and sexual exhibition, which earned him monitoring and a ban on all contact with minors, was kept in detention. Graying hair, old glasses held by a cord, clothes that were too loose, he arrived at the bar of the Douai court muttering behind his mask. “I have the right to speak huh!“, he launches to the president, who asks him not to interrupt him while she tries to summarize the facts. He shrugs, looks away. His lawyer, Me Philippe Janneau, intervenes to discuss “Eureka“, a voice that speaks in the head of his client and to whom he seems to be addressing. “Stop replying to Eureka“, then launches the president to the defendant. “She does what she wants with me. She told mehe replies.
One hour weird lesson
The man at the helm, judged in immediate appearance, entered a primary school in Douai on Tuesday morning, whose CM1-CM2 class was just waiting for a replacement. “You were asked if you were a substitute, you said yes“says the president. In class, for about an hour, he launches into an incoherent dictation, gives a Morse code lesson, speaks alone, steals a Rubik’s Cube… The students, taken aback, try to attract the attention of the other teachers. Until the director asks the intruder to leave. Before leaving, he will file a job application on his desk. “You wanted to see what it was like to be a teacher“, summarizes the president. Asked about the little voice in his head, the defendant, now much calmer, replied that “she listens religiously“.
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“We haven’t prepared anything. I didn’t know he was going to give us such a demonstration“, Resumes his lawyer at the time of claiming a new psychiatric expertise. This seems obviously necessary despite an initial expertise not having noted, according to a press release from the prosecution on Thursday, “no abolition or alteration of discernment“. “The attitude he has can only go in this direction“Agrees the deputy prosecutor. The president asks the defendant if he understands the usefulness of such an expertise. He turns to his advice:Oh? No I do not know…»