On January 18, 2022, Mickaël Falou, 37, was sentenced by the Correctional Court of Bordeaux to six months in prison for malicious reiterated calls made to his ex-companion, Sandra Pla, dead under his knife … July 2, 2021.
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It was the 58 e female in France in 2021. The second in Gironde, in less than two months. On July 2, 2021 in Bordeaux, Sandra Pla, 31, was killed with knife with his former companion. Mickaël Falou, 37, has since been indicted for murder on ex-spouse and placed in pre-trial detention. It incurs the perpetuity criminal imprisonment.
Quickly, the question asked whether the drama could have been avoided. Sandra Pla felt harassed after separating his 4 year old daughter’s father. She had alerted the authorities several times. Four days before the facts, Mickaël Falou was custody for reiterated messages of malicious messages by spouse. Seventy-seven calls and 217 SMS, issued between January 3rd and June 18, 2021, for which it was tried in November 2021 and sentenced on 18 January to six months in prison by the Criminal Court of Bordeaux.
A reaction and firmness of justice judged late or even vain by some. The discordance of time, the time offset are not lacking to interrogate. Because Sandra Pla died more than six months ago. Deferred June 29, 2021, three days before the murder, Mickaël Falou had already been sentenced to eight times but never for violence. It was therefore summoned for the hearing at the single judge of November 16, 2021 and placed under judicial review, in particular, with the prohibition, of which he did not take into account, to come into contact with the mother of his daughter .
“Illusory”
“The content of the messages was not threatening but supplicative, specifies the prosecutor of the Republic of Bordeaux, Frédérique Porterie, solicited by Le Monde on this file. It would be illusory to believe that remand all men who write messages to their ex-companions to ask them to return to their rupture decisions would eradicate the scourge of intrafamily violence. “
“Once the date of 16 November to be deemed to be issued, the law acts that public action is engaged and the court seized of the facts”, recalls the magistrate. The correctional trial was therefore held despite the posterior criminal facts. Stay only the “if” and “perhaps”.
“He felt dispossessed. These troubling messages were the beginnings of the murderous act,” says M e Julie Gabinski, counselor counsel, now “high in But in Spain “, where his grandmother resides. The latter has been appointed trustworthy third party and has been delegated parental authority.
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