On October 17, a passerby walking his dog saw a man breaking the window of a Renault Clio parked on the hospital car park in Beauvais. The individual searches the glove box and leaves. The walker informs the hospital security officers who arrest him. thief. He had taken a box of emergency lights and a box of surgical masks.
The man, Sofiane Moussit, 34, is a inmate of Beauvais prison on semi-release who offered no resistance and was unable to say why he did this. He just said to his lawyer, Marie Dufoyer: “If they say I did it, I did it“. During the immediate appearance hearing on October 18, doubting the mental health of her client, she requested the referral of the case and a psychiatric assessment. His criminal record, which includes 10 mentions, weighed in the court’s decision to place him in pre-trial detention until his trial.
He finds himself isolated in Beauvais
During this psychiatric examination, Sofiane Moussit indicated that he was schizophrenic, just like his father. As long as he lived with his mother, she prepared his treatment for him. And when he was incarcerated in Lille prison, a city where he still lives with his mother with his partner and their five children, it was his brother, himself incarcerated, who monitored his follow-up. Bad luck, for a question of rebalancing the workforce, Sofiane Moussit was sent to Beauvais prison. Where he found himself completely isolated, and on the loose with no one to watch over his treatment.
The expert psychiatrist concluded that there had been an alteration, without abolition of his discernment. Marie Dufoyer regrets that her client had to be on his tenth conviction for an expertise to be ordered. She asks for an adapted sentence with ab initio adjustment.
The court understood this, it upheld the alteration of discernment and sentenced the defendant to two months in prison with continued detention. A sentence that he has already practically served in pre-trial detention but which will allow him to prepare for this release by avoiding throwing him out on a Friday evening in Beauvais where he knows no one.
