On January 31, 2021, in Florange, a couple freshly installed under the same roof is organizing a family aperitif. The atmosphere is friendly, alcohol served generously. The guests leave. The owner goes out for a walk and then comes back. “He looked weird […] He was not in his normal state, ”confesses his concubine. It demands explanations. The tone rises, she pushes him off the bed. He pushes her back violently, keeping her wrists and forearms tight. He screams, storm.
His cries wake up his wife’s daughter who occupies the next room. The 10-year-old child tries to separate his mother and stepfather with fear in his stomach. As she tries to warn her mother’s best friend, the furious man pushes her over and snatches the phone in her ear. “He was like crazy. Mom got up several times, he ended up slapping her, ”reports the little one.
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“She didn’t even have bruises”
Drunk with alcohol and anger, he breaks everything within his reach, including furniture. And ended up throwing the dresser out the window. “She wanted me to go. She threw all my things outside, ”loose the spouse, summoned Monday before the court of Thionville. Violence ? He denies them outright: “I am not someone violent”. And to justify himself: “She (his wife) didn’t even have bruises on her face. I didn’t hit her ”. Talkative, very talkative, systematically cutting off the magistrates, the man charges his companion. “He’s a very temperamental person”; “I had been drinking but she too”.
The defendant, already convicted in the past for offenses related to excessive consumption of alcohol and narcotics, was sentenced to a twelve-month sentence with full probationary suspension of two years. He must also no longer appear at his former partner’s home and come into contact with her.
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