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A Quimper resident found dead at Place du Stivel: the accused, “a child king” gone “mad”


“What is consistent in the accused’s story is that nothing was ever built. There were attempts to build it but from the moment the toxics increased, there was nothing more. Everything became a series of stories. A series of legal stories,” reported Professor Loïck Villerbu, this Wednesday, December 20, on the third day of the trial of Mahoney Leilde, a 34-year-old Quimper man on trial for murder.

Throughout his testimony, the psychologist expert attempted to retrace the life course of the accused, from his childhood until his indictment for the murder of a sixty-year-old whose body was discovered on November 13 2020, upstairs in the former La Maison bar. yellow, place du Stivel, in Quimper. But it was not easy because, during his interviews with the thirty-year-old, he was confronted with a major difficulty.

“There is no continuity in his words”

“He is both there and not there. It goes in all directions. He is there but more as a spectator. Understanding is good but he doesn’t know how to argue, he doesn’t know how to describe. There is no continuity in his words,” continues the psycho-criminologist. A behavior that he adopted during the trial, not being able to express himself, making very confused and contradictory comments.

Describing the intelligence of the accused as “average”, Professor Loïck Villerbu recalled that his schooling in Quimper at Diwan had been disrupted due to “a state of instability”, “turbulence”. The expert notably mentioned attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). At high school, in Rennes, things became complicated because he had left “his cocoon”, his mother with whom he had a “close relationship”. A “child king” who wanted to follow in his father’s footsteps in the printing business.

“Nothing lasts, nothing is built”

But “he cannot conclude. It’s always in the sketch, it never comes to fruition. Nothing lasts, nothing is built, nothing is achieved. It is an important psychological element that we will find for all the choices he makes subsequently,” continued Professor Loïck Villerbu, specifying a “pathological mental construction”. An active life without a profession, living mainly on Active Solidarity Income (RSA). All mixed with a “search for external stimuli” because “nothing fits” in “his project of an imaginary life” where “nothing is real”. Dependence on alcohol, tobacco and narcotics with daily consumption.

“The toxins will push him to act, to take action. It gives him a sense of existence. Without toxic substances, everything goes away, everything collapses,” noted the expert. Addictions which worsened his psychological problems. Psychological problems which worsened over the course of his incarceration: fifteen entries in the criminal record, three long periods of incarceration. Today, by the admission of those close to him, Mahoney Leilde has gone from a “happy”, “nice” child to a “scary”, “disconnected”, “crazy” man.

Tried for murder, the accused, who disputes the facts, faces thirty years of criminal imprisonment. The verdict could come this Thursday, December 21.

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Louis-Antoine Prat, president of the Friends of the Louvre, accused of having defamed the Parisian merchant in a new book

French art historian and collector of old drawings Louis-Antoine Prat, president of the Friends of the Louvre group, has been accused of slandering a respected art dealer with anti-Semitic stereotypes that he published in a new book.

Prat’s news The aisles of the living room, a reference to the Paris drawing fair, comes from a collection published by El Viso in September. The story draws an unflattering comparison between a “pure-hearted” drawing collector and an art dealer named Nicky Schwarz who is “driven by greed.” The latter is characterized by his poor personal hygiene, his “disgusting” appearance and his manipulative behavior towards collectors and journalists.

The story also contains passages interpreted as homophobic and misogynistic, concerning an “effeminate young man” groped by Schwarz during the opening night of the Salon du Dessin and “single ladies cursed by age”.

The book includes a disclaimer that any similarities between a work of fiction and real people, living or dead, are purely coincidental. But details of the fictional Nicky Schwarz’s clothing and published catalogs have led art experts to identify him with a leading Paris-based specialist and dealer in antique drawings, Nicolas Schwed.

“It’s very easy for anyone in the field to identify Nicolas Schwed in this story,” says George Goldner, former head of the drawings departments at the J. Paul Getty Museum and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Journalist Carole Blumenfeld says that Prat himself told her privately that the character of Nicky Schwarz was indeed Schwed.

Academic and author Claudine Sagaert has studied anti-Semitic stereotypes in 19th and early 20th century French literature. In a 2013 anthropology article, she noted how demeaning depictions of Jewish people’s physical appearance were commonly associated with immoral character traits, such as greed and dishonesty.

The language used in Prat’s story “is borrowed from the old anti-Semitic tradition” of French literature, comments collector and patron Pierre Morin. “Maybe the author isn’t even aware of it. » Parisian art dealer Hubert Duchemin condemns the “freely slanderous and nauseating” passages in the book.

“This vocabulary is definitely part of the language defining hatred of Jews around 1900 and beyond,” explains Schwed, who adds: “This is not the role of any museum representative, and in particular the president of the Friends of the Louvre, to slander art dealers. Morin and Duchemin point out that Schwed is considered a professional rival by Prat, a passionate collector of master drawings.

Prat’s perceived attack on Schwed is “totally inappropriate,” Goldner says. “The author, with whom I have no personal problems, has exceeded the limits of decency. He must also be aware that he has a responsibility to preserve the reputation of the Louvre and its Friends.

Prat did not respond to a request for comment but said The world He said he was “horrified by the accusation of anti-Semitism”, affirming that a “cabal” wanted to jeopardize his re-election as president of the Friends of the Louvre next June. “It’s grotesque,” ​​he protested. “I have a number of Jewish friends.”

Former Louvre director Pierre Rosenberg, who oversaw an exhibition of the Prat collection at the museum in 1995, came to his defense, saying: “I can testify that he is not an anti-Semite. » Prat’s editor at El Viso, Nicolas Neumann, affirms that he “did not see an ounce of anti-Semitism in his text”.

The controversy pushed art historians Jean-Christophe Baudequin and Alexandre Gady, director of the Musée du Grand Siècle, to withdraw their contributions from an upcoming book of tributes to Prat.

The current director of the Louvre, Laurence des Cars, refused to comment, saying she could not interfere with the independent association Friends of the Louvre. However, a spokesperson says Des Cars “disapproves of Prat’s outpourings of all kinds” and “is always saddened by anything that affects the reputation of the Louvre.”


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experts contradict each other on the IQ and personality of the accused


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The question of the intelligence of Michel Fourniret’s ex-wife and her role in the criminal career of her ex-companion were at the center of the debates on Tuesday.

Published 12/12/2023 7:53 p.m.


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A battle of experts animated the trial of Monique Olivier, Tuesday December 12. Psychologists have looked into the intelligence of Michel Fourniret’s ex-wife as well as her role in the killer’s criminal journey. Since 2004 and the arrest of Michel Fourniret, two visions have opposed each other and continue to clash before the Hauts-de-Seine Assize Court.

On Monique Olivier’s intelligence, and more particularly on her IQ, two experts brought opposing conclusions to the court on the subject. For the first expert, a Belgian psychologist, Monique Olivier presents an intelligence located in the low average, around 95 IQ. For the second, a French psychologist, on the contrary she has very high abilities, an IQ of 131, higher than that of Michel Fourniret. At the bar, the two experts accuse each other, one believes that his colleagues “the brushes are tangled”the other talks about “results that depend on the periods and emotional states of the accused”.

In the end, it is difficult to decide, even if a third and final evaluation carried out recently tends to point to slightly below average intelligence. Whatever happens, this question will not change the debates, believes Monique Olivier’s lawyer: “My client will be convicted and I will not appealsays Me Richard Delgenes, but the challenge here is rather to understand it better.

Submissive victim or active accomplice?

Monique Olivier’s personality also divides experts. Everyone agrees on one point: Monique Olivier’s lack of empathy, her inability to express her emotions. This is also what allowed him to last so long in the face of the horror of the crimes, according to experts. But when it comes to answering the central question, whether the accused was a submissive victim of Michel Fourniret or an active accomplice of the killer, the theories are diametrically opposed. For the first Belgian expert, the unbearable fear of abandonment and solitude is enough to explain why Monique Olivier never fled, why she was able to support the crimes and even participate in them. For this psychologist, there is no perversity in the accused, only, he says, total submission.

A theory totally contradicted by the second expert who speaks on the contrary of an aesthetic of perversity, of a complacency or even a fascination on the part of the accused. She was the muse, he said, of Michel Fourniret, the muse without whom the serial killer would not have had a criminal career of such magnitude. She derived from it, says the expert, a form of personal satisfaction. Twenty years of expert battle which will not have been enough, concluded the lawyer for the victims’ families at the end of the hearing, to unravel the unfathomable character of Monique Olivier.

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