He spent three years, eight months and twenty days in pre-trial detention.
Incarcerated on August 3, 2017 as part of the investigation into the murder of a man, stabbed in the tram in Nantes, the individual was finally acquitted on April 23 by the Assize Court of Loire Atlantique.
Accused of having supplied the murder weapon, he was tried for complicity in murder.
He is now claiming 500,000 euros in compensation from the Rennes Court of Appeal for the moral damage suffered during his years in prison, his lawyer said on Sunday confirming information from
Ouest-France
.
In his request for compensation, the lawyer details "the prison shock" suffered by his client who had no criminal record, incurred a 30-year prison sentence, was cut off from his family and had to undergo the consequences of prison overcrowding.
“He had to sleep on a mattress on the floor for several months,” says Master David Curiel.
His lawyer discusses the Loïc Sécher case law
Suffering from isolation, "he initiated a psychological follow-up which was granted to him in a very erratic way: he had a few sessions in four years", added the lawyer.
"And the trauma does not stop at the gates of the prison", continued the lawyer, who evokes in his request "symptoms of post-traumatic stress due to this incarceration".
To assess the moral damage of his client, the lawyer is based on the case law of the Rennes Court of Appeal, which in 2012 had awarded 600,000 euros in compensation for his moral damage to Loïc Sécher, for more than seven years. in prison for rapes he did not commit.
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