The boy is strong. “I am 100 kg, I am a boxer”, he announces. Two punches would have been enough to knock out his rival. But instead, he just bitten her nose. In the first sense. The victim underwent several surgeries, skin and cartilage grafts to reattach the torn piece. Thirty days of total incapacity for work were prescribed for him.
The Thionville Criminal Court returned to this extraordinary violence this Thursday, May 19. The background of the story is quite classic. It all starts with the separation of a couple. The young woman is rebuilding her life. Her ex finds it hard to accept her. So much so that he places a GPS tracker on his car. He can thus follow his former girlfriend. Once, twice. The third time, he travels 100 km, crosses the Moselle. The signal leads him to Uckange, August 12, 2021. “I’m not proud of it, but yes, I did it,” he concedes at the bar. The young woman’s car is parked in front of a house. He rings the bell, copiously insults his ex, then addresses the man she is dating now. He agrees to follow him. “He was calm, I was ready to talk,” says the victim.
The two men move away towards a narrow lane, aside. “I walked past him, then I felt him knock me down. He threw himself on me, ”explains the new companion. He explains that the ex tried to strangle him, that he stuck his thumb in his eye before biting his nose savagely. The young woman followed them. She tried to intervene, screaming to warn the neighbors.
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Judgment rendered on June 22
The defendant, 40, has a completely different incredible version of the facts. Light shirt, fitted pants, trimmed beard, he tells a fight worthy of an action movie. He maintains that his rival pulled out a gun. He downright mimics the scene. “I grabbed his hand, gave him an armbar. before biting him in the face.
“Yes, it’s a wild gesture,” concedes his lawyer, Me Zouaoui. “We are nothing but evolved animals,” he begins. The board pleads self-defense, survival instinct. An instinct that would have transcended his client. “It’s not counter psychology, it’s biology,” he dares. No weapon was found. No witness saw her. “But if there was no weapon, why would my client lie on top of the victim? »
The lawyer for the civil party provides an answer to this question. “He bit him to mark him, to leave a mark. He wants that every time Madame kisses her new companion she thinks of her ex, ”suggests Me Felici. She portrays “a frustrated man who did not like his companion to escape him”. “Pulling a person’s nose off is an act of barbarism,” she insists.
The deputy prosecutor of Thionville requires against the defendant two years in prison, including one year suspended subject to three obligations: to treat his impulses of violence, to compensate and to keep away from the victims. She also asks that he be prohibited from possessing a weapon for the next five years.
The court will deliver its judgment on June 22.
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