Between two sips of water, which he drinks regularly with frantic anguish, G. explains at the bar of the Marseille criminal court what for him is a love story. A romance between him and the ecologist deputy Sandrine Rousseau, whom he has never met yet. “A year and a half ago, I fell very much in love with Sandrine Rousseau, at the political and even physical level, explains this inhabitant of Belcodène, a small town between Marseille and Aix-en-Provence, which will celebrate its 45th birthday in a few weeks. . And since I have a lonely life, I projected my life onto it. I lived vicariously. I watched the shows. I lived my life through her, it’s true. I was looking for at least that she could talk to me. »
So, for Sandrine Rousseau to notice, G. gets in touch with the Green MP. And not just a little. The forties is the subject of a complaint from Sandrine Rousseau who accuses him of having sexually harassed and threatened him on social networks. Between April 2022 and February 2023, the investigators noted several hundred messages, on Twitter, on Facebook or by email addressed from G. to the parliamentarian.
“I was very much in love”
Messages in which G. tells the MP about his life, but also declares his “love” for her, according to him, emphasizing for example his “indecent joie de vivre” in a program broadcast the day before in the same message sent… 15 times . Statements that are often quite specific, of a sexual nature. One day, the forty-year-old tells Sandrine Rousseau that he masturbates while thinking of her, another the fantasies of his sexual relations with the deputy, another time that he falls asleep with “his succulent tongue. »
And as Sandrine Rousseau remains totally hermetic to her messages, G. opts for a change of tone. “I was very in love and when I insulted her, it was sadness, because she never said anything” says G. Faced with the ignorance of the environmentalist, G qualifies her by turns of “dirty nymphomaniac whore” or “bitch”, when he does not affirm that Sandrine Rousseau “waste [s] the last years when [elle] remains fuckable. »
Adjustment Disorder
He also comes to threaten her, wishing her to be raped by “radical Islamists” or even to be “stung by a manta ray and die”. The man is not his first victim, since he has already been sentenced for similar acts against a youtuber between 2016 and 2017, with whom he was in love, there too.
The psychiatric and psychological expertise of this unemployed 40-year-old underlines “adjustment disorder, social isolation, a fragile personality” and a lack of emotional maturity. “Are you taking any medications? “Asks him the president of the court, Magali Vincent. “No, I just take MDMA,” replies the defendant, who claims to be a regular ecstasy user. “My client has a consumption of narcotics which makes him lose touch with reality, argues his lawyer, Me Léo Sepulcre. He got bogged down in a destructive obsession. Sandrine Rousseau embodied an ideal of equality, a social project that echoes her countless failures. »
The 40-year-old did try psychotherapy… but he fell in love with the therapist. “I would need a man,” says G., who claims to “need someone” to “support and be supported. “. “It would be too easy to see this gentleman as someone lost, annoys the prosecutor, Eve Tassin. We are also on someone capable of violent remarks. “Going beyond the requisitions, which opted for an 18-month suspended prison sentence, the court sentenced the forty-something to a one-year suspended probation, accompanied by an obligation of care, work or training, a ban on contact with the victim, all for three years, as well as a one-year ineligibility sentence.