The state was sentenced on Wednesday for “gross negligence” to pay 27,000 euros for moral damage to the family of Nathalie Debailliea woman murdered by his ex-spouse in Lille in May 2019against which she had filed three handrails and a complaint.
If it is not a first, such convictions are rather rare. In his judgment, the first civil chamber of the Paris court recognized that there had been “a dysfunction reflecting the incapacity of the public service of justice to fulfill the mission entrusted to him”.
A commanded torture made by his ex
Nathalie Debaillie, kidnapped in her workplace, kidnapped and slaughtered, had warned the police four times that her ex-companion planned to make him undergo, in vain. None of his complaints was registered and sent to the prosecution, had recalled the family lawyer during the hearing, Me Isabelle Steyer.
The state judicial agent had recognized his “gross fault” of the police in this female case. “The investigators should have, after information of the public prosecutor, carry out acts of investigation, carry out all useful verifications and the hearing of the respondent,” said the judges in the decision.
On the other hand, the court did not retain an gross negligence concerning the inaction of the police during its abduction, which had been denounced by the applicants, stressing the “determination of the investigating services to implement all the useful means in order to help Ms. Debaillie”.
The family lawyer had claimed much higher sums
He ordered the State to pay 10,000 euros to each of the victim’s two children, Romain and Florine, 4,000 euros to his brother Nicolas Debaillie and 3,000 euros to his ex-Mari Grégory, father of their two children, as their moral damage.
At the hearing, the family lawyer had claimed much higher sums (200,000 euros for each of the children and 100,000 euros for the brother and for the ex-husband). She was not immediately reachable to comment on this decision.
