On 8 September a young woman tearfully called the police: “She follows me everywhere. Please get rid of him! “Her ex-spouse was arrested that evening, in Aumetz, as he drove her to her house, like almost every day for many months. “I just wanted to chat,” jokes the defendant who was driving without a license. “And was it because she didn’t want to stop that you signaled her to cut her throat?” “, Ironically the president of the judicial court of Thionville, where the mis en cause is judged on 13 September.
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“She scores for nothing”
For ten years, the couple maintains a romantic relationship with ups and downs. “It was weird,” admits the ex-spouse. The young woman talks about an “unstable and harmful” relationship, explaining that the situation had drastically worsened when she discovered that her boyfriend was cheating on her. She therefore refuses to let her go and does not allow her to break up. He harasses her day and night, she goes to her workplace during the lunch break, follows her home after work, endangers her family by blackmailing her. He is everywhere. She is exhausted. The good messages are followed by the threats, the gifts by the blows. However, she says she never hit her. “She scores for nothing”, he finally let go when the court mentions her presence in the file of medical certificates with accompanying photos of bruises.
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“She became his prey”
Called to the bar, the huddled victim says: “He is impulsive and violent but he always manages to be forgiven by being kind, attentive.” He also explains how, during a trip to Malta with a friend, he saw him unexpectedly arrive at his hotel when they were no longer a couple. “As she says (the victim, ed): I had a life, she confiscated it from me”, sums up the master Lagra for the civil part. And to press: “She was her thing. She became his prey. Indicating “constant physical, verbal and symbolic pressure,” Brice Partouche, representative of the prosecutor, requests a significant sentence of eighteen months in prison, twelve of which are accompanied by a two-year prison sentence with continued detention.
The accused receives a sentence of twelve months in prison, of which six are suspended on probation, with provisional execution. He is forbidden to contact the victim and present himself in the city of Aumetz where the latter resides and must also be the subject of a psychological follow-up.
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