A 44-year-old French man, who deliberately caused a commotion in the middle of the night to disturb his noisy neighbours, could have been given a four-month suspended prison sentence for his disproportionate retaliation.
“We do not understand why he invested so much money and ingenuity in doing all this. Why would you go to this extent to cause us this harm?” “We did not do anything exceptional, we just have children crying,” a neighbor of the accused said on Thursday in front of the Isère court, the court said. Local media reported Dauphiné Liberation, according to BFMTV.
A radio on maximum, speakers broadcasting children's cries on the shared wall, a tom-tom machine and an early morning vacuum cleaner: for months, the forty-year-old had been doing everything he could to disturb his neighbours' sleep, the French reported. Media.
The school life aide, disturbed by the sound of the neighbour's children crying, allegedly explained that he had taped his household appliances to the wall he shared with his neighbors to “counter-attack”, causing them numerous sleep problems, including “psychomotor arousal”, “a [fatigue] Significant” and even a “feeling of fear and anxiety,” one doctor reportedly noted in court.
“I have never seen cases like this and I do not want anyone to live with them,” the public prosecutor said, according to Dauphinee Liberation newspaper.
During this period, the forty-year-old may have prepared a room in his garage, so as not to hear the noise he himself makes in his building by operating his home appliances.
“I've lived in this building for about 10 years. At first, things went well. There were quite a few elderly people. With the arrival of the new arrivals, I felt increasingly disturbed early in the morning, in the evening, and at night,” he explained in court. Weekends.
The man, who allegedly displayed traits of “family loneliness” and “emotional difficulties”, as well as “persecution”, eventually received a four-month suspended prison sentence for “noise assault”.
