“I regret infinitely, I blame myself a lot”, declared this man living in Aubagne (South-East), blond goatee and white T-shirt, during an immediate appearance hearing at the Marseille judicial court where he asked to postpone his judgment to prepare his defence.
"He used all possible means: Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, email", "he had a total obsession with me. He sent me up to 70 messages a day", told AFP the ecologist deputy who was not at the hearing.
Since May, she has filed a complaint twice against this man.
It was the phone number he had given in one of his messages that would have made it possible to identify him.
Unemployed, desocialized and suffering from addiction to ecstasys, the defendant still lives with his mother and said he was "lonely for 14 years".
In 2018, he had already been sentenced to community service for threatening and harassing a YouTuber specializing in video games.
"I was in love with her and she wouldn't respond to me," he said on Friday about that previous affair.
He will be tried on March 29 and is by then placed under judicial control with obligation of care and prohibition to come into contact with the victim.
"I receive dumps of messages. Fortunately most of them, I do not see them, because I have plenty of filters not to read them" but "it questions sexism and the culture of rape", added Ms. Rousseau.
Alongside other elected members of her environmental group in the National Assembly, the deputy had revealed on February 20 the threats they suffered, in particular on social networks.
They had posted on Instagram, under the hashtag “Balance ton intimidation”, the worst of the hateful, racist, and sexist threats they received regularly.
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