Posted on 02/11/2021 at 05:42
Justice. Prosecuted for having contacted a Canadian artist on numerous occasions from 2017 to 2021, a Fécampoise was sentenced to eighteen months in prison, twelve of which were suspended.
The Canadian country music singer Manon Bédard, as well as her companion, were the victims of “repeated malicious calls” from a fan of Fécamp. (Photo Sarahintempo / WikimediaCommons)
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Long silences. Sometimes with nods, “yes” or “no”. The exchange between the 35-year-old defendant and the president was not very fruitful, at the hearing of the Criminal Court of Le Havre. Fécampoise, Tiffany is once again worried about “repeated malicious calls”, facts initially qualified as “harassment”. In recidivism, she has already been convicted six times for this same offense from 2013 to 2018.
This time, Tiffany has set her sights on a Quebec country singer, Manon Bédard and her companion, who did not become civil parties. SMS, Facebook messages, emails, videos, gifts sent … the defendant contacted the couple from 2017 to 2021. Up to 40 messages per day “of love, hate, apologies, insults to sexual connotation by jealousy ”, describes the prosecutor. She also called relatives of the singer like her sister-in-law, “to check in”, explains Tiffany in the box. He even sometimes contacted the victims “by back door means” by creating email accounts with false identities. “This is the groupie’s file”, summarizes the judge. It all started with messages sent via Messenger to the Facebook page for fans. She explains having found the singer “nice” after having “seen her on YouTube”. “You write regularly, like other fans, and you get responses like most of them. The relationship is well established “to the point that the defendant” asks for their home address to send them a gift “, continues the judge. Then, “relations deteriorated, a priori because you considered that she was not responding to you quickly enough”. Tiffany sends him: “Wish me my birthday and I’ll stop pissing you off on the phone.” »Or:« You see the message, you do not answer me. Don’t complain after I harass you. It was “the very high telephone bill” that made him stop calling.
She called them “daddy” and “mum”
“Since I arrived in prison, it made me think,” she says. Prison she has known in the past. “What’s new?” », Asks the judge before a long silence in response. After another pause, the president blurted out: “Your silence tends to think that your reasoning is not completed. You don’t know what to answer (…) You have work to do. “Despite facts which” may seem light “,” one can imagine what the victims, hunted down, had to undergo “:” a hell “, estimates the prosecutor. The magistrate deplores that she “will stop at nothing”: she will thus pass herself off as her adviser of the penitentiary service of integration and probation with the artist. The defense lawyer hears the couple’s suffering, but he also speaks of that of his client to whom the victims “allowed her to call them mum and dad”. He evokes the expertise of the psychiatrist who describes, of course, a “double criminological and psychiatric danger with a very high risk of repetition”. But also “a person who lives in his head”, “lonely”, “erotomaniac”. For her lawyer, “she gave in to impulses that she could not control”. These “impulses” earned him eighteen months in prison, twelve of which were suspended on probation. Kept in detention, she will have to serve a total of twelve months in prison, after the revocation of a previous suspended sentence.
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