Their relationship has always been confrontational. Already in Algeria. Then in Thionville where he joined his wife and children four years ago. On June 2, the 42-year-old father returned home. It’s 2:30 p.m. He hasn’t had lunch and hopes to find his meal, ready, on the table. His wife, with whom he has been cold for several days, did not wait for him to eat. Furious, he grabbed his wife by the throat, insulting her and threatening her: “If you go through this door, I’ll kill the children.” He violently pushes his children away, who are trying to protect their mother, overturns the furniture, throws a chair over his spouse. “I’ll be done with you, I don’t give a fuck anymore!” “
The photos taken in the apartment by the police bear witness to the violence of the scene. “I’m living a nightmare,” finally let go of the forty-something called to answer for his acts in front of the court of Thionville. I am a good father because I work to support my family […] With my wife, we have plans […] It is not fair “.
“What you are describing, sir, is the ideal couple. Are you a good father because Madame does the shopping with your money and you let her drive the car…? », Cut Marie-Cécile Dupuy, vice-president of the court of Thionville.
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“It’s gone up crescendo”
He doesn’t understand what he’s doing there. However, his wife describes recurrent scenes of violence. “I live on the alert. It is uncontrollable and unpredictable ”. Comments corroborated by the children who evoke slaps and blows of the belt for a yes or a no. The medical examination also revealed numerous lesions and scars on their limbs. “Small educational spankings” for the defendant, nothing more. “Over the months, years, it has risen crescendo”, testifies his wife present at the hearing.
For the representative of the public prosecutor, Marie-Pierre Chateauvieux, “this file leaves me speechless. The accused adopts a very very disturbing position of denial. He dismantled the apartment when he saw that his meal was not ready. He was in the fridge, but he didn’t like it ”.
The father of the family was sentenced to twelve months’ imprisonment, five of which were suspended for two years, prohibited from coming into contact with his wife and from coming to the home. A sentence in total adequacy with the requisitions of the prosecution.
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