The couple broke up at the end of 2020 but continued to cohabit for practical and financial reasons. In Vitry-sur-Orne, on February 3, 2022, a 36-year-old man, a father, refuses to open the door of the common accommodation to his ex-companion who has come to pick up their child to take him to his grandmother. She insists. Tone up. He finally opens and grabs her by the shoulder to finally push her away. She loses her balance, runs down the small staircase that leads to the apartment and hurts herself. The ex-spouse closes the door, declaring before the Thionville court that he had not seen him fall.
But beyond this episode of violence that occurred in “a context of extreme tension” between the two ex-spouses, the respondent also and above all appeared for having sexually harassed the mother of his child, demanding sexual favors from her. to be able to use the car and stay in the apartment, whose lease was in both names.
The ex-companion, weakened by the separation, and moreover being in a probationary period on the professional level, lived badly the idea of being homeless. Dozens of explicit messages claiming fellatio or sexual intercourse were added to the file.
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“Almost paid sex”
“I knew she would refuse. I did that for her to leave because I couldn’t take the situation with her anymore, ”explains the defendant at the bar of the Thionville court. However, cornered, his ex-companion will give in once or twice, which will not prevent the defendant from continuing to exercise his scabrous blackmail. “He said he was looking for a way to get her to go away […] However, with 3,000 € per month, he could take his small business and move, “launches Maître Martin for the civil party, considering that it was a question of” sexual relations almost paid for so that she could stay “. “Monsieur has set no limits to weaken his ex-companion”, considers for his part the public prosecutor, who requires a four-month suspended sentence accompanied by a ban on coming into contact with the victim during eighteen months.
The harasser ex-spouse was given a four-month suspended prison sentence.
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