The Versailles Court of Appeal condemned Christina Kragh Michelsen to four months in prison sentence for having prevented employees from taking care of Jean-Paul Guerlain and for having harassed one of them.
by yann go
In the legal battle which has opposed him, for several years, to the companion of his father, the only son and tutor of the perfumer Jean-Paul Guerlain has just won an important victory. The Versailles Court of Appeal declared, in a judgment rendered Thursday January 12, Kirsten Kragh Michelsen, called “Christina”, guilty of “moral harassment” on an ex-employee of house and “voluntary violence” on vulnerable person, In this case Jean-Paul Guerlain, 86 years old and suffering from senile dementia. The Franco-Danoise, twenty-two years younger and who lives in the property of the perfumer, was sentenced to four months in prison suspended, as well as to pay 3,000 euros in damages to Stéphane Guerlain, and 2 000 euros in Faouzia M., the employee of house recognized victim of harassment.
The lawyer for M Me kragh Michelsen, M e Frédéric Bélot, said he was planning to be in cassation. For his part, M e Pascal Koerfer, lawyer for the son Guerlain, shares his “satisfaction that things are a little recognized. It is important because for ten years Stéphane Guerlain has been undergoing the outrage of this lady (…). I hope it will bring back serenity for the end of life of Mr. Guerlain. “
For a decade, at the heart of its imposing property in the Mesnuls, a common town of Yvelines on the edge of the Rambouillet forest, the existence of Jean-Paul Guerlain is not enviable. In 2013, while the mental health of the perfumer declines, the justice decides on a reinforced curatorship measure. Her son is designated curator for a period of sixty months. In January 2018, Stéphane Guerlain became a tutor of his father, an “essential, considering the importance of his movable heritage as long as Immobilier”, estimates justice.
“Intentual mistreatment”
Above all, for ten years that Jean-Paul Guerlain has been witnessing, helpless and sometimes unconscious witness, to the conflict between his companion to his son. The lawyers of Christina Kragh Michelsen filed, in March 2020, a marriage file at the town hall of Mesnuls. Stéphane Guerlain, as a tutor, opposed it and won the case. In parallel, companion and son accuse all evils, including that of not worrying about the well-being of the old man. Judicial complaints fuse on each side, often in pure loss. In June 2022, Stéphane Guerlain was tried, in his absence, for “insults”, “death threats”, “voluntary violence” and “moral harassment”. It was relaxed.
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