Four years of hell. A hell of violence, insults and marital rape. At the bar, the 56-year-old defendant recognizes all the facts for which he appears.
But, as the lawyer of his ex-partner, Me Tribalat-Langénieux, and the public prosecutor remark, it is with a destabilizing detachment that he confesses what he has done to the one who shared his life, from 2011 to July 2017, in this small town in the district of Montluçon.
An inhabitant of Montluçon (Allier) sentenced for violence against his ex-partner: “This man is a time bomb”
In December 2014, the first physical violence
However, until 2014, she described him as “a nice man”, “funny”. Until his alcohol consumption increased. Her partner gets angry more and more, more and more quickly.
“I get carried away quickly, my nerves are mounting. “
the accused (to the court)
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And on December 11, 2014, the first physical violence occurred.
The second episode takes place in March 2015. Then the shots become more regular, mainly when he comes home in the evening, drunk. There are the bites, the pinches, the slaps with the flat of the hand on the head, a punch. He squeezes her wrists, grabs her by the neck. He takes it out on her, he says, because she did not prepare the meal, because she did not bake him a birthday cake, because the cleaning is “badly done” …
Psychological violence is becoming commonplace. Just like forced sex. For him, he said in hearing, “when you have an erection, you have to go to the end”. Because, he supports him, she is his companion and he “did not know that it was reprehensible”.
The defendant could have appeared before an assize court for the facts of rape. But with the victim’s agreement, the rapes were reclassified as sexual assault and therefore correctionalized.
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A prison sentence pronounced
His lawyer, Me Bourg, emphasizes: “The context is very specific. “
“For him, his partner should be a woman at home, cooking. She doesn’t necessarily have a say. He grew up, in spite of himself, in this pattern. “
Me valérie bourg (defense lawyer)
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But for the prosecutor, “his acts, with the desire to impose his domination, are abject”. He therefore asked for a “severe” sentence.
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The court followed his requisitions: five years imprisonment, including eighteen months with a two-year probationary suspension. A deferred arrest warrant has also been issued against him and he will be entered in the automated judicial file of perpetrators of sexual and violent offenses.
Phone. 3919. Women victims of violence can contact this emergency number, free and anonymous, accessible 7 days a week.
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Laura Morel
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