Fifteen years in prison for a suicide attempt that caused injuries
The suicide attempt resulted in a gas explosion that had itself almost completely destroyed a building. (Drawing). – E. Frisullo / 20 Minutes
The sentence handed down by the Assize Court of Côte-d'Or was superior to the submissions of the Advocate General who had asked the jurors 12 years' imprisonment. The 53-year-old man who caused a gas explosion in 2016 and injured 15 people in a suicide attempt at
Dijon was sentenced Friday to 15 years in prison.
This sentence is accompanied in particular by an obligation of psychiatric and psychological care. The jury recognized an alteration of discernment.
A "war scene"
The facts go back to September 16, 2016: shortly after 9am, a blast shakes the neighborhood of the station in Dijon. The one-story building is almost completely destroyed. Around, some buildings threaten to collapse but the explosion has only injured. While he is rescued from the rubble by relief – some will speak of "war scene" – the accused Yves Naudé indicates himself to have opened bottles of gas and fired to end his life.
Burned on 20% of the body, the fifties is led in a service for burn victims in Metz. He will be indicted a few weeks later and placed in pre-trial detention. "Can we criminally condemn a desperate man who wanted to die? Asked the Advocate General before replying in the affirmative. "Under the rubble we could have found dozens of dead," he said.
A man spurned by his neighbor whom he was in love with
"What Yves Naudé needs is care," retorted the defense lawyer, Me Aurelie Champenois, who already considered the prosecution's submissions "disproportionate" for "the act of an imbalance who wanted die ". A man who wanted to end it because of a sentimental disappointment. Madly in love with a neighbor, with whom he had friendly relations, he had been rejected several times.
To the jurors, the man recounted his feelings, his anger, but denied that he had threatened his neighbor or wanted to harm others. He said, too, having trouble remembering, the fault of drugs and alcohol that he would have consumed before the facts. Among the fifty or so civil parties, a woman now aged 59 is the most seriously affected. She was in Dijon for professional reasons and had to have a leg amputated. His testimony moved the room and made the accused cry. "His presence has tilted the court of assizes to a worsening of requisitions, it has tipped the trial," said his lawyer, Jean-Philippe Morel.
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