Monday afternoon, the owners of the accommodation, which a nurse from Hérault had indicated having to leave because of her job, were released by the criminal court of Montpellier. The prosecution will appeal this judgment, learned 20 minutes this Wednesday from the public prosecutor.
The couple, a 76-year-old woman and an 80-year-old man, against whom suspended sentences of one to three months' imprisonment had been requested, were simply sentenced to a suspended suspended fine of 50 euros for slight "degradation" of a good.
The owners deny any link with the nurse's profession
The affair broke out at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic in early April. An investigation had been opened by the prosecution of Montpellier, and the owners of this accommodation had been placed in police custody. Before the court on Monday, if the defendants recognized a conflict with their tenant, especially around the number of people occupying the accommodation, they denied any relationship with their tenant's job.
"Initially, it was directed against my mother and my daughter," explained Monday at the helm this nurse anesthetist at the Montpellier CHU, referring to an initial altercation, on March 23, between her mother and the owner, about the presence of a dog and the number of occupants of the accommodation located in Montarnaud, north of Montpellier. "I had to move out in full confinement, in the middle of the night," she explained, saying that she had "accumulated fatigue" when she was very stressed due to the crisis.
Jean-Christophe Legros, the owners' lawyer, said on Monday he was satisfied with the acquittal, denouncing "media and judicial excitement" and "distorted information".
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