A 35-year-old drug addict was sentenced on Tuesday night to 6 years in prison for strangling his 17-month-old daughter in a village near Quintin while under the influence of hard drugs. The girl is miraculously He gets a total of 7 years and four months for several acts of violence related to drugs.

The 35-year-old at the helm of the Saint-Brieuc Criminal Court this Tuesday is struggling to hold his nerves. For him, the stakes are high: he incurs 20 years in prison for strangling his 17-month-old daughter on June 29, 2016, in a village near Quintin, in full delirium under the influence of drugs.

That night, the mother discovers her companion in the room, holding the baby by the neck at arm's length. She catches the child and warns help.

The mother as drugged as the father

"Samu is in a critical situation ," said the prosecutor. The baby has signs of asphyxiation on his face. In the end, the child will come out without sequelae. Neither physical nor neurological. "A miracle" , according to Christophe Manant, the representative of the girl. A miracle, too, that the mother was able to react. She was as drugged as the father. "The only one to be lucid that night is the 11-year-old eldest daughter , " the prosecutor said.

The couple, rave party lover, lives in the world of stupas. They touch everything: cannabis, heroin, cocaine, LSD ... He got out of prison a few months earlier. And the descent into hell worsened a few days before the facts. He will have spent 96 hours awake under the effect of crack.

"Warning signals"

"In the small town, there were strong warning signals throughout the day," says the prosecutor. The man went around the village, he went to the bar where everyone has witnessed his paranoid delusions.

At the time of the facts, the defendant would have been taken with doubts on the paternity of his baby, according to the words of his companion. "She gave me my daughter at around 10 pm , crying the thirty-something at the bar. I do not know what happened. I do not know why I hurt my little girl. "

Under judicial supervision, he plunges

Faced with the evidence and despite its dotted memories, the addict can only recognize the facts. He went to a hair's breadth of the Assize Court. "We do not know why he committed this act , argues Eric Tabard. But he always worried about the health of his daughter in the months that followed. "

Problem: released from his pre-trial detention in June 2017, at the time of an attempted murder on his daughter, the addict experienced further violence later ... while under judicial control. On the eldest daughter of his girlfriend and a teenager he hit Corlay for bothering his nephew. The 30-year-old gets 6 years in prison for strangling his baby, 16 months for the other facts