• This Wednesday, the criminal court of Marseille sentenced a man accused of cyber-harassment towards the deputy Sandrine Rousseau.
  • At the helm, this forty-year-old recidivist, unemployed and drug user, explained that he fell in love with the parliamentarian and wanted to attract her attention.
  • He sent her hundreds of insults and sexual messages.

Between two sips of water, which he drinks regularly with frenzied anxiety, G. explains to the bar of the criminal court of Marseille what is for him a love story. A romance between him and the ecologist deputy Sandrine Rousseau, whom he has never met. "A year and a half ago, I fell very much in love with Sandrine Rousseau, politically and even physically," explains this resident of Belcodène, a small town between Marseille and Aix-en-Provence, which will celebrate its 45th anniversary in a few weeks. And since I have a solitary life, I projected my life onto it. I lived vicariously. I was following the shows. I lived my life through it, it's true. I was looking for at least her to talk to me. »

So, for Sandrine Rousseau to notice, G. gets in touch with the ecologist deputy. And not just a little. The forty-year-old 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, investigators found several hundred messages on Twitter, Facebook or email from G. to the parliamentarian.

"I was very much in love"

Messages in which G. tells the MP about her life, but also declares her "love", according to him, highlighting for example her "indecent joie de vivre" in a program broadcast the day before in the same message sent... 15 times. Statements that are often all particular, of a sexual nature. One day, the forty-year-old tells Sandrine Rousseau that he masturbates thinking about 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 much in love and when I insulted her, it was sadness, because she never said anything," says G. Faced with the ignorance of the ecologist, G alternately calls her a "dirty nymphomaniac whore" or a "poufiasse", when he does not affirm that Sandrine Rousseau "wastes [her] last years when [she] remains fuckable. "

Adjustment disorder

He also came to threaten her, wishing her to be raped by "radical Islamists" or to be "stung by a manta ray and die". The man is not his first victim, since he has already been convicted for similar facts towards a youtuber between 2016 and 2017, with whom he was in love, there too.

The psychiatric and psychological assessments of this unemployed forty-year-old highlight "an adjustment disorder, social isolation, a fragile personality" and a lack of emotional maturity. "Are you taking medication?" asks the president of the court, Magali Vincent. "No, I'm just taking MDMA," replies the defendant, who says he is a regular ecstasy user. "My client has a consumption of narcotics that makes him lose touch with reality, argues his lawyer, Léo Sepulcre. He got bogged down in a destructive obsession. Sandrine Rousseau embodied an ideal of equality, a social project that echoes its countless failures. »

The forty-year-old has tried psychotherapy... But he fell in love with the therapist. "I would need a man," says G., who claims to have "need someone" to "support him and be supported." It would be too easy to see this gentleman as someone in poverty, 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-year-old to one year 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.

  • Sandrine Rousseau
  • Cyberbullying
  • Lawsuit
  • Conviction
  • Court
  • Marseille
  • PACA
  • Justice