“Criminal Trial in Saint-Nazaire: Defendant Sentenced to 12 Months for Domestic Violence”

The trial took place on April 14, 2023 at the Criminal Court of Saint Nazaire (Loire Atlantique).

One evening in January 2021, the couple spent the evening “laughing” when, the defendant told the hearing, “an argument broke out over jealousy from a photo”.

At the helm, this man 27 ans said: “She started it, she bit me, I told her to stop, I couldn’t control myself anymore”.

He added: “We had stopped, but here we go again, because she wanted to go to my parents”.

He then described a scene that took place outside, where he was bitten again and his t-shirt was torn.

She told him she was leaving him

The young woman then argued that that evening, she had told her companion that she was ending their relationship. She did not describe the scene in the same way: “I bit him because he put me on the ground… He punched me, threatened me with death, I couldn’t manage anymore. to breathe. »

She continued: “Outside it was raining, it tore my coat, I was soaked, I had blood everywhere. Insulting me, he agreed to drive me to the emergency room. »

Her lawyer added: “Yes, he left her at the door like a packet of dirty laundry“, specifying that apparently, his client” is not the first victim of the defendant “.

President Hazan considered the medical certificate attesting to the victim’s injuries “very impressive”: “We do not have the impression of a fight of equals”.

The Pornicais expressed his regrets. As for the prosecutor, she certainly asked the question: “Who started it? but mentioned: “As soon as his companion escaped him, he caught her. »

“An unreasonable situation”

For his part, the defense lawyer believed: “The confusion, that day, is not due to my client”. He described a couple that went off the rails “creating an unreasonable situation”: “He who is a good son, a good comrade, has not been able to control himself”.

The prosecution had requested a six-month suspended prison sentence. The court pronounced twelve .

The defendant has no contact with the victim to whom he will have to pay 2500 € for the suffering endured and 1000 €court costs.

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