• This Tuesday, the 6th correctional chamber of Lille was judging defamation cases.

  • One of them opposed a former artistic director to a teacher.

  • The first, Monique G. notably called the second, Ms. Poisson, “cod”.

In the first part of the Damien Rieu vs Xavier Bertrand trial, another defamation case was tried on Tuesday before the 6th correctional chamber of Lille.

A case which, by the very admission of the president of the court, could have been settled elsewhere than in court.

But the complainant, Ms. Poisson, had decided to mark the occasion.

The defendant, Monique G., aged 60, is not used to the courts.

Her first time, she owes it to a teacher, whom she also knows very well, and to a “freak out of control” to use the expression of her lawyer.

The story begins with an e-mail sent to Mrs. Poisson in which Monique G. notably calls her a “cod”.

An insult "schoolboy" according to the accused, in connection with "the nickname that the students give to the teacher".

Except that the email, instead of arriving in the mailbox of the person concerned, is sent to a whole list of people, in particular colleagues of the complainant.

An “abolition of discernment”

However unpleasant it may be, Ms. Poisson would not have filed a complaint if the affair had ended there.

Except that Monique G. balances a post on Facebook in which she specifically accuses Ms. Poisson of having, among other things, "made works disappear".

For this attack on her honor and her professional integrity, the plaintiff is asking for damages.

And apologies.

She won't have these.

“I have bipolar disorder and I was in the middle of a period of decompensation.

I am not going to apologize for comments that I do not remember having made, ”said the defendant.

Disorders "recognized since 2003" that a psychiatric expert confirmed before the hearing, considering that Monique G. was at the time of the facts suffering from an "abolition of discernment".

It is then up to the complainant to be singled out by the defence, arguing that Ms. Poisson could have taken this into account before filing a criminal complaint and asking for a reduction in damages to “one symbolic euro”.

Decision at the beginning of October.

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  • Lille

  • Defamation

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