2023-11-14 11:48:00
The Namur Assize Court continued on Tuesday the trial of Omar Hedi, 36, who must answer for the murder of his wife, Mariana Gouverneur.
On April 18, 2021 around 11 p.m. in Rochefort, Omar Hedi stabbed Mariana Gouverneur, 25, to death with 29 stab wounds. The events took place in the apartment where the two protagonists and their 5 children lived, rue de France.
Psychologist Massin and psychiatrist Deparis took the stand. The psychiatrist did not note any disorder that abolished or altered the accused’s capacity for discernment at the time of the facts. “He appeared sad, dejected, moved, collapsed during our interview, without being in a state of major depression,” specifies Dr. Deparis. “The said he wanted to turn the knife on himself. He tells us he has nightmares where he talks about the guilt of the victim.”
“I see her in my dreams as if she had understood her fault,” Hedi told the psychiatrist, regarding the contacts that Mariana Gouverneur had with other men. “He presents himself as a good husband and a good father, who cannot be blamed. He tells us that his state of anger, frustration and the feeling of being “taken for an idiot” overwhelmed his reason. He could not mentalize the separation to come, which sent him back to that of his family of origin.”
For the psychiatrist, Hedi absolves himself of his responsibilities by, for example, posing as a victim of the drug scene, even though he was selling them. “He did it believing that it was his way of contributing to the family budget.” The act of killing Mariana Gouverneur is presented as an outburst of frustration caused by the failure and death of her marriage.
The psychologist notes a lack of authenticity and notes that the accused attributes responsibility for the facts to the victim, to his drug consumption, to his contacts with other men. She notes a below average intelligence quotient. “He has a narcissistic personality. I notice a lack of empathy in him. He lacks limits, wants to take control and impose his point of view. He has difficulty self-regulating when impulses and emotions arise.”
Hedi said he felt like someone else had acted in his place when he made the fatal stabbings. Dr Deparis analyzes: “It is his emotionality that speaks, his overflow of anger, he crosses the moral barrier. He is impulsive, narcissistic, so it is an impulse release. I have doubts about the sincerity of his statement.” Anne Massin adds: “He does not want to be responsible for his action and therefore puts him at a distance. He is constantly looking for causality so as not to question himself. “She didn’t have to behave like a dog,” he told us. “When you have a wife, it’s not so that she fucks like a female dog,” he would also have clarified to Dr. Deparis.
Questioned by Me Fery, counsel for the ad hoc guardian of the children, Dr Deparis declares that the accused speaks superficially about them. “Certainly, he loves being their father, but shows little interest in them, little empathy, while they find themselves in a more than critical situation, him being in prison after killing their mother. He shows a lack of questioning and expression of guilt. His evening’s representation of the facts is that the children saw and heard nothing while they were in the apartment. Which is surprising when you see the cramped configuration of the place. This amounts to minimizing their trauma.”
Ms. Mathieu, the psychologist who accompanies Hedi in prison then spoke. “I have been doing it for 2 years and once a week for 6 months. His way of talking about his wife at the start did not suggest that she had died, he spoke of her as if she were still alive, he is in complete denial. He says he misses her. Speaking about the relationship with the victim, he evokes a fairy tale. He is very attached to his children.”
Mr. Fery then made an observation: “He loves his children, but I’m not sure he loves them the right way. His speech is extremely traumatic for them, particularly because of his lack of questioning. In May 2022, he further trivialized the act committed. Children need a real challenge, I hope it will happen.”
Mr. Weyders quotes statements from the accused about the victim: “I see her clearly in my dreams, as if she had understood her fault. In my dreams, I adore him to death. It’s both our fault. In my dreams, I try to forgive her.”
In a letter written to investigating judge Burton, Hedi further clarified: “It’s both of us’ fault, it’s not me.”
The debates will continue Tuesday afternoon with the hearing of the first witnesses.
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