“I didn’t say anything because I was ashamed. I was scared “. Last May, a young 24-year-old woman went to the Hettange-Grande gendarmerie to denounce the violence carried out by a tyrannical father. She describes the climate of terror in which the whole family lives. Or rather survives. Beatings, insults, a knife never far away to silence them, her sisters and her, the sexual assaults that she suffers. This father, their executioner, appeared before the court of Thionville, Thursday, July 8 to answer for his acts. Acts whose gravity was taken up a notch during the hearing. Close to each other, the four daughters and their mother barely dared to breathe when their father and husband appeared. Eyes lowered so as not to cross hers, black, murderous. Called to the bar, the eldest daughter, despite speech problems related to the trauma suffered, will speak and reveal the unmentionable. She says her father “every night for eleven years” slips into bed and forces her to act and have sex with a knife in his hand. His sisters confirm having seen, on several occasions, their father enter the room and come out 20 to 30 minutes later in underwear.
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“An incest as there is little”
The youngest of the siblings, who once shared the same room, indicates that she turned “towards the wall” and “covered her ears” so as not to hear the complaints of her older sister. “I always hoped that my mother gets up at night and that she surprises him”, loose the collapsed victim. The mother, a beaten, humiliated and hard of hearing woman had not slept with her husband for years. “We have all suffered. We have been unhappy our whole life, ”blows the latter. The father denies the beatings and sexual assaults. “I fucked you like a cow and I will do it again”: Is that the message you sent to your daughter? “Cut the president of the court, François-Xavier Koehl. Against the wall, he admits having had sexual relations with his daughter “just once” and because “it was she who wanted it”. And to add: “I did not know that in France, having sex with your daughter was punishable by law”. Silence in the room.
“Are we transported to another dimension? It’s unreal. Monsieur talks to us about getting his car and his bank card back while his daughter tells us about her suffering, her shame. We have been dealing with rape for eleven years, an incest of which there is little. This falls under the Assize Court! », Asserts master Marie-Cécile Felici, for the civil party. Tried only for the acts of violence against his wife and youngest daughter, the man * was sentenced to twelve months in prison with continued detention. A warrant of committal was also issued against him, as was a ban on French territory for five years. A new investigation concerning the facts of rape on the elder will be carried out at the request of the Public Prosecutor’s Office and then sent to the Metz instruction center.
* In order to preserve the victim’s anonymity, the identity of the accused is not disclosed.
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