Yann Loppinet had been tried since Monday by the Assize Court of Meurthe-et-Moselle, accused of “torture and acts of barbarism”but the Court has reclassified the facts in its decision as “voluntary violence against a vulnerable person with total interruption of work (ITT) greater than eight days in recurrence”. His continued detention is right.
Advocate General Jérémy Lapertot had requested a sentence of 15 years’ imprisonment accompanied by a two -thirds security period, “in consideration of the nature of the facts and the personality” of the accused, whom he described as “manipulator, dominator, intolerant of frustration and violent”.
Already sentenced to six times, including four times for violence, Yann Loppinet was imprisoned at the time of the facts for violence with weapons on his partner.
Nolan Halter, 24, also sentenced for domestic violence, shared his cell from September 29 to November 16, 2021.
That day, he denounced with supervisors “punches, foot, in the belly, legs and genitals”, and deplored having been “sprayed with a household product with the smell of bleach”, or even having been “burned on the finger and the soles of the feet with matches”.
He also says he was forced to “drink the urine” of Yann Loppinet and to “ingest his own excrement”.
The complainant, under curatorship reinforced since 2024, had been the subject of a clinical examination after his declarations, which had revealed injuries that could correspond to the facts denounced, and his ITT had been set at 15 days.
“A dominant and a dominated”
“There was a dominant and a dominated in this cell,” summed up at the hearing Me Clémence Morel, a lawyer of the victim, for whom the accused, “in omnipotence and perversion”, transformed his client “into an object”. “His will to make him suffer is obvious, he breaks his body and his mind,” she hammered.
The accused, for his part, denied violence. “I listen to Mr. Halter and I am speechless, it’s absurd,” he said. Admittedly, “I have never worn it in my heart, (he is) someone detestable and deceitful,” he conceded at the end of the hearing. But “that’s not a reason to hurt him,” he added.
Defense lawyer, Thomas Hellenbrand, estimated that the declarations of the civil party were “not gospel words”. “Even if he allegedly violated him, it is cell mistreatment, but in no case acts of torture and barbarism,” he argued.
Since the start of his incarceration in April 2021, the complainant has changed 15 times in terms of cohabitation, theft and hygiene. His locker has 21 mentions.
