There was an eerie atmosphere on Monday January 23 when a 45-year-old homeless man was brought to court. The man was on trial for death threats and threats of repeated offences against representatives of the justice system.
On Wednesday January 18, during an official visit to the Palace of Justice, the man had suddenly attacked the staff present and uttered that he would return “with the sword of Allah” to “dismember the police and the judiciary”. During his interrogations in police custody at the Le Havre police station, and later at his direct appearance hearing on Monday, the man referred several times to Allah’s judgement and the afterlife.
He was already well known to the court from several cases, including similar acts of threatening law enforcement officers. He asked to remain in prison and did not return to the dock when his sentence was announced: 24 months imprisonment followed by preventive detention. Le Courrier Cauchois