“Is kicking your face normal for you?” »Asks the public prosecutor. Silence. The woman and victim of the man who appeared for domestic violence before the Thionville criminal court, does not respond. The seconds stretch, the eyes mist. She prefers to elude. “I don’t feel like a victim because I’m as guilty of our arguments as he is. I work a lot, I am under pressure when I come home. “What is reproached to Monsieur, it is not arguments, it is violence”, asserts the magistrate. Six episodes of violence between 2016 and 2020 are described by the victim’s daughter in a letter addressed to the gendarmerie in December 2020. The teenager evokes several scenes that would have taken place between 2016 and 2020 in the family home of Gandrange. Objects thrown at her mother’s face, a punch in the stomach, a brief loss of consciousness, and then a tackle to the wall and hair pulled out of which she herself was allegedly the victim. A version that the mother watered down: “My daughter was not present at every argument. She could have heard some things, but she did not see them. “
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“A couple that has gone wrong”
Yet all these episodes she describes, the husband and stepfather remembers them as a burn. He admits having had fits of anger. He admits having grabbed his stepdaughter by the collar and pushing her against the wall once. He admits throwing a bottle of shampoo at his wife once. And he admits having seized a shoe without admitting the blows… “I’m ashamed”, murmurs the defendant. Twelve months in prison, eight of which with probationary reprieve are required against him.
“When a couple is arguing, there is the passive provocateur and the active provocateur, argues the defense lawyer. Madame said it herself, these are arguments. We are dealing with a couple who have malfunctioned. The facts are too tenuous because they are not characterized to be qualified as violence ”.
The court ruled and sentenced the entrepreneur to a six-month sentence with a probationary suspension of two years, together with a ban on appearing in the matrimonial home during this period.
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