The long and inexorable wandering of Mathis father before removal – Le Figaro

PORTRAIT – Sylvain Jouanneau deemed this week in Caen for the kidnapping of his son. The man had for years planned to “recover” the child.

From our special correspondent in Caen

The incarnation of denial. Since the opening of the trial of Sylvain Jouanneau Monday morning in Caen, for the kidnapping of Mathis, everyone tries to speak the accused. But neither the tears of Mary Elizabeth, her elderly mother of 71, nor the entreaties of the mother of Mathis nor sharp questions from lawyers and judges are doing. “But we can not go, you have to shake this man. If the person hustles, he never speak, “almost shouted, in tears at the helm, Alain Louet, the companion of the mother of Mathis at the end of the second day of the trial.

Between silences, inconsistencies and unsaid, however draws the personality of the accused. Before the weekend of 4 September 2011 when he decided, in his story – which has many improbabilities and omissions – from “Mathis entrusted to persons abroad”, life Jouanneau Sylvain, 42, seems have been a long wandering. Described as “an unbalanced personality” by the psychiatric expert Daniel Zagury, man made several stays in psychiatric hospitals, especially in the wake of a suicide attempt at age 20.

“The devil is in me, which I torture myself by trying to leave the side of evil”

“It was never an easy child, told her mother at the helm. In motherhood, he did not it was already 3:00 anger. At school he had no friends, he was excluded. Nicknamed the strainer, the cochlea. “His father, he said to have never been” close “to his son. Emotional deprivation which it would have suffered and has regretted his father’s bar. “We were a little old France … Here the father brought the money and the mother looked after the children,” he explained.

In tune with many demons, he described himself in a letter to his parents as “the devil is in me, torture me, trying me from the side of evil” Sylvain Jouanneau seems to have found brief periods of calm with women he fell in love. But being “incapable of self-criticism and to question him a different being,” according to the expert psychiatrist, his romantic relationships have irretrievably wrong. Nathalie Barré, mother of Mathis, has evoked before the tragedy, a “happy” with Sylvain Jouanneau period. “I had a wonderful pregnancy” did she remembered. Another former girlfriend, whom he met after the mother of Mathis, Emmanuelle Fretwell, also described by videoconference a man extremely attentive with her for several months. But that had ended up doing it “terribly afraid.” After their breakup, he has threatened to kill her and her family if she did not return to him. “If a person does not take his mistakes with me, I am capable of the worst,” he had written the accused. “Any abandonment is experienced as a betrayal” by Sylvain Jouanneau, also said Dr. Daniel Zagury.

“Delaying unbearable moment of confrontation with his gesture”

Since 2008 and his divorce Nathalie Barré, Sylvain Jouanneau nurtured the project to “recover” Mathis. He vowed to his ex-wife a delirious hate, that do not support their separation. He had thus acquired butcher tools in the explicit intention to “hurt her”.

Emmanuelle Fretwell, described by the accused in a letter to his parents as “a little angel (he) allows to resist” the ‘devil’ within him, had already deterred once remove Mathis. In January 2011, Syvain Jouanneau had telephoned him from the Spanish border, “hysterical” with his son. He told her that “the little crying.” After two hours, she had convinced him to return. Neither the mother of the child nor the authorities were then alerted to the attempt. His break with Emmanuelle Fretwell, in August 2011, seems to have broken the dikes past him and revived the pain of his divorce Nathalie Barré, pushing the switch to the side of crime.

But what crime? Sylvain Jouanneau appearing this week for kidnapping, illegal restraint, but the question that everyone is asking is whether he killed Mathis. The psycho-criminological expert instruction evoke assumption that the defense believes “dramatisante” the possibility of “Medea syndrome, kill the child when it’s revenge on the other parent.” In this case Sylvain Jouanneau remain refuge in silence for “intolerable delay the time of the confrontation with his actions.”

The question is whether the three remaining days of hearings will provide access to the truth. “Not likely, according to Dr. Zagury. It could self-delusion, persuade himself that he did not commit the irreparable. “So when me Aline Lebret, lawyer Nathalie Barré asked Sylvain Jouanneau” do you consider that Mathis is a victim “Sylvain Jouanneau replied:?” Victim what “Performed at the time by the audience as yet another provocation, this answer may well be what is sincerely believes Sylvain Jouanneau. The man, whose criminal record incurs 30 years in prison. The verdict is expected Thursday or Friday.