Three years of living together, ups and downs and one drunken night out, one too many. This Monday, October 3, a Mondelangeois had to explain to the court his violent behavior towards his partner on June 30.
Thionville’s Rive en fête summer event is in full swing. The lovers meet a couple with whom they chain up their glasses. When they returned to the plaintiff’s apartment, after one last drink on the town, an argument erupted. The forty-year-old pulls the victim’s hair who claims that the latter tried to suffocate him with a pillow. In the proceeding there is no censure on these facts.
“I have a judicial past, he provoked me”
“Do you acknowledge having been in a toxic relationship with her? “Asks President Marie-Cécile Dupuy. “Yes”, replies the interested party, which points out the attitude of his ex who continued to contact him. “I have a criminal past, she provoked me. And on June 30th I had a black hole. We had both consumed the same thing”, ie 0.4 mg/l of alcohol per liter of exhaled air controlled by the interviewee.
This judicial past, the representative of the prosecutor did not fail to recall. Or two hints of violence against two exes of him, and one against the complainant, a robbery with violence. “It doesn’t matter the partner, every time, he can’t explain his violence, alcohol being an aggravating circumstance. »
The hour of reckoning has come when the resolutions are pronounced: twelve months’ imprisonment, seven of which with conditional suspension in two years, to which are added the obligations of treatment (alcohol, narcotic and psychological) and the ban on entering in contact with Thionvilloise and carry a weapon for two years. The fixed penalty can be adjusted by means of an electronic bracelet.
