Ali Boukra, 53, was brought before the Carcassonne Magistrate’s Court on Monday October 25, escorted by the police, for making death threats and insults against public figures and a public employee. He was sentenced to 18 months in prison, of which 12 months were suspended.
On October 20, the victim, a city hall employee, went to the defendant’s home after she was made aware that someone was feeding stray cats and birds at that address. When she arrived at the defendant’s garage, she introduced herself and asked Ali’s mother to stop feeding the animals. “That was the moment things got out of control,” she testified on Monday. “Ali Boukra stormed out of the garage. I pulled out my ID card and the stream of insults started. But what really shocked me was when he said, ‘I will cut your throat, by the Quran, I will cut your throat.’ He then took my bicycle, lifted it up and threw it away. Scared, I ran away, he chased me for a while and I ran off,” she says.”I have a Mediterranean nature, but I am not violent. I had a disproportionate reaction,” the accused admits.”You understand that saying “I will slit your throat” makes your threats more serious because these are terms that have a terrible meaning in people’s minds, ” the judge stressed. “In my religion they always say “I swear on the Quran”, but I am not violent, I have not committed jihad, I have never killed,” the defendant replied. “I go to the mosque to keep up the pretence”, says the man who calls himself a ” sham Muslim”.
Following the report by the municipal employee, the municipal police interrogated Ali Boukra, who, when confronted by the officers, maintained the same tone of voice and assured them, “If I see her again, I will cut her throat”. On October 22, a team of eight gendarmes, including six officers from the Psig, arrested the accused at his home at around 9 am. Once again, the man was aggressive, especially towards a policewoman. “As soon as I approached him, I was showered with insults. I couldn’t even tell him about his rights, he told me ‘you, I’m not talking to you’. He definitely has a problem with women,” she testified. “In my 30-year career, I have never experienced anything like this, but that’s when I saw a deep hatred in his eyes, in his sombre look,” said another gendarme present at the scene.
Ali Boukra is 53 years old, divorced and unemployed and lives with his parents on social welfare. The psychiatric report speaks of an “uncontrolled emotional charge” and underlines “the signs of hypertrophy of the ego”.
In view of his criminal record with ten previous convictions and the facts mentioned, prosecutor Florence Galtier speaks of “a man who behaves like a man possessed”. She demanded 18 months imprisonment, of which 8 months were suspended, the obligation to seek medical treatment and to remain in prison. The defendant’s lawyer, Maître Quentin Poirot-Seynaeve, believes that “a prison sentence would be ineffective” and demands “psychological and psychiatric care for the mentally ill Ali Boukra”.
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