Throughout the hearing, David Lopez, a 31-year-old Prémilhatois will deny the violence. He assures him, he did not throw his companion from a moving car on September 27, in the district of Bien-Assis, in Montluçon.
Coming to testify, the young woman is nevertheless formal. “It was she who opened the door and stepped outside,” maintains the defendant, who will have a hard time denying the other facts with which he is accused.
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Throwing objects out the window
The president of the court explains: “After your partner has filed a complaint, the police come to arrest you. You then say that you are waiting for them with butcher’s knives and boiling oil. The defendant assures that he does not remember these threats.
You throw a television and a computer out the window, then various objects at the police and their car.
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The Prémilhatois does not dispute the throwing of objects, but assures that he did not target anyone. “Yet you would have said: ‘You’re going to take it in the face’. “
He is also accused of violence on another companion, as well as the destruction of various objects, this time in May 2019. Violence finally admitted by the defendant, pushed to his limits.
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Two years in prison required
“Mr. Lopez is a person out of control”, maintains the public prosecutor before requesting four years of imprisonment, two of which are suspended for three (with obligation to care, to work, to compensate the victims, and prohibition to hold a weapon for five years). He also asked for continued detention.
“He assures us that he did not throw his partner out of the car. There were gaps, with an absence of investigations on the car. Doubt must benefit him. “
Me chautard (Defence lawyer)
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Relaxed from part of the facts
The court will thus decide to release him for these facts. But condemns him for the others to three years of imprisonment including eighteen months with a probationary suspension of two years, with various obligations (obligation of care, to work, prohibition to come into contact with his companion of May 2019 and to detain a weapon for five years). He remains in detention.
He will also have to pay € 300 each to the three threatened police officers, € 600 to those targeted with the objects. He will also have to pay € 3,374.95 to an owner whose building has been damaged by these same objects. The hearing on civil interest, concerning the companion with whom he was in May 2019, has been postponed to December 8.
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Laura Morel
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