Seven months after being the victim of a violent attack, Olivier Ménard breaks the silence in an interview given to The team.
© Bestimage Olivier Ménard, attackedé &agrav; her home by an unknown person declared “irresponsible”
IN BRIEF
- On January 12, Olivier Ménard was assaulted in Issy-les-Moulineaux, resulting in a total temporary incapacity for work.
- The attacker, deemed irresponsible, will not be prosecuted despite the complaint for homicide filed by Ménard.
- Olivier Ménard claims not to be traumatized and thanks the support received after the incident.
The facts date back seven months. On January 12, Le Parisien revealed that Olivier Ménard had been the victim of an assault two days earlier in the entrance hall of his building located in Issy-les-Moulineaux, in the Hauts-de-Seine department. Totally incapacitated for work (ITT), he had been replaced for a few days by his colleague Giovanni Castaldi on the evening shift.
Following the assault and the intervention of the police services, the journalist had filed a complaint for homicide, thus giving the starting signal for an investigation conducted by the Issy-les-Moulineaux police station. The latter had given an initial testimony in the columns of L'Équipein these words: “My attacker wanted to kill me. &At one point, he passed a little behind me and wanted to do guillotines, break my cervical vertebrae. There, the fact of doing sport every day helped me a lot. I managed to control his strength, to counter him”.
200% Deposit Bonus up to €3,000 180% First Deposit Bonus up to $20,000Olivier Ménard: why his attacker will not go to justice
It is on Buzz TV that Olivier Ménard breaks his silence again at the beginning of this year. In the interview he gives to his colleague Nicolas Vollaire, the journalist from the L'Équipe channel gives news of the perpetrator of his attack. “There will be no trial. he was found, but he was declared irresponsible and from the moment there is an irresponsibility that has been granted, he is completely out of the justice system”, he reveals.
Taken care of by psychiatric doctors, the individual will soon regain freedom without his victim being informed. “When he gets out, I won't know”, confirms the Angevin.
Olivier Ménard: the journalist is he traumatized ?
During his act, the aggressor allegedly accused Olivier Ménard of having“spoken badly to (s)a mother or (s)a mother”. If he suffered from injuries to the face and knee, the one who answers to the nickname “Mémé” claims not to feel traumatized. “I have never been traumatisé, I don't know why, I felt more whip-wielding than ça”, he says.
And to conclude: “One: taking punches in the face, he didn't hurt me, two: we must produce a sort of survival instinct and three: I'm not shocked”. Olivier Ménard had recovered his health with a lot of rest, but also thanks to the many messages of support from Internet users.