“I was his prey, his slave, his object for years. Julie* lived more than thirty years alongside an abusive husband. She took the insults, the denigrations, the contempt. She wasn’t working. She raised their children. “That’s how he held me,” she analyzes. Julie lived under the influence, convinced that she was no better.
Then he got tired. “He kicked me out three times. He was telling me to get out, he wanted me to slam the door and leave everything to him. Julie finds the resource to defend herself. She initiates the divorce. And triggers the wrath of her husband. She received death threats and beatings. She files a complaint in the summer of 2021. Her husband spends a few hours in police custody, without action. Julie files a complaint a second time six months later. The physical violence she denounces marked her body. She was sent to the emergency room at Bel-Air hospital in Thionville. “I was in a lot of pain”, says…
–
