He speaks quickly and is agitated at the bar of the criminal court. The 48-year-old defendant denies the violence, threats, display and sexual assault with which his neighbors are accused. He’s chunky, beefy and he says he’s the victim of a conspiracy. “This is fake news,” he gets carried away on several occasions.
The first neighbor says that he rang his doorbell until it opened, around 1 a.m. on March 18, loop of the Saint-Pierre meadows in Thionville. The man is on the landing, in a robe. “I asked him what he wanted, he didn’t answer me,” she says. But he would have revealed himself by untying his robe. The tenant closes the door. The guy seems very alcoholic to him. He would have returned a little later to insult him before going down one floor in the building.
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Still alcoholic the next day
Same scenario. He knocks relentlessly. A young woman opens. She says he in turn insulted her before grabbing her left breast. “I kicked him with my shoe,” she says. Not enough to calm the neighbor in a bathrobe who would have asked him, without any poetry, fellatio.
“I heard a woman scream, I went to see. He chose single women, “protested the first victim. She quickly joined her neighbor. Both say he came back with a kitchen knife this time. He would also have taken the opportunity to lower his pants. The girls took refuge in the apartment to alert the police. A patrol moved, but the man entrenched in his accommodation never wanted to leave.
The next morning, the neighbors met him again. They say he was still threatening, still armed with a kitchen knife. This time, the police arrested him. He was still an alcoholic.
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In recidivism
After two months in pretrial detention, the accused continues to deny. He didn’t drink alcohol, he didn’t undress. “I got up at night to ask for a bottle of water,” he tries. ” I am not crazy “
The psychiatric expert still advises a care order as long as possible. The man is already well known to justice for alcoholic behavior, sexual assault on a spouse in 2015 in particular.
The recidivism was retained during the trial held on May 14. The court finds that he has enough evidence to sentence Richard Kanago-Di to eighteen months in prison. A sentence accompanied by socio-judicial monitoring for five years. He must justify care and keep away from the victims. He will also be prohibited from holding a weapon. If he fails to comply with these conditions, he faces an additional three years in prison.
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