“This couple is I love you, me neither,” summarizes Madame’s lawyer. It describes a relationship punctuated by separations and reconciliations. But it seems that this time, the story is well and truly over. Husband and wife, aged around 30, are divorcing. They occupy the family home every other week, in the Haut Pays, to share care of the children.
Tuesday, they appeared before the Thionville criminal court. Not to talk about the amount of alimony, but to respond to mutual violence committed at home, in the presence of their daughters, last September. “We fought,” admits the wife. A dark feeling of jealousy, a tense context would have ignited the powder. She allegedly knocked over objects, bitten, slapped her husband. He would have pushed her away, kicked her thighs. Medical certificates attest to this turn of events.
Awareness training courses for everyone
The court will follow the requisitions of the public prosecutor. He sentences the father, unknown to the courts, to an awareness course against domestic violence. He faces a fine of 1,000 euros in the event of non-compliance. The mother will have to justify the same internship (or three months in prison if she deviates from it). She also received a four-month suspended prison sentence. Because his record is not clean. He already has a first mention in 2017 for violence against his husband.
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