The defendant, 42, is tried in immediate appearance before the Chartres court for violence against the woman with whom he has an affair outside marriage.
It all started in the early evening, on August 4, when a woman’s neighbors, in a residential area in the south of the Chartres metropolitan area, heard calls for help.
“The house was a mess. We could see that there had been a fight “
They alert the gendarmes. “The house was a mess. We could see that there had been a fight, ”they noted in their report. “There were strands of hair on the floor. “
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The woman, alone in the house, seems paralyzed. She explains to them that her lover did not appreciate her decision to leave him, while he was returning from Marseille (Bouches-du-Rhône), where he had apparently gone for imperative family reasons.
“I learned that he actually went on vacation with his wife and children. This is too much for her, who has been waiting for six years for the unfaithful husband to decide to leave his wife for her. She tells him about her decision to end their relationship. But man does not hear it that way.
“I just wanted to chat with her”
After having sent her hundreds of threatening phone messages, he decides to come see her.
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“I just wanted to chat with her,” he assures during his trial. But what should initially be a focus degenerates into a violent household scene.
“He took care to unplug the CCTV camera in my living room, before slapping me. He grabbed me by the hair, threatening to cut my head off, ”the victim testified during his hearing. Still according to his statements, the man would have pulled out a knife, threatening to “bleed” her.
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He then left, piercing the inflatable pool he gave to his mistress’s children.
The gendarmes arrested him at the marital home he shared with his wife, who was convinced that her husband’s infidelity had ended since 2015, when she had discovered the existence of this affair.
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“He lied to everyone, to his wife and to his mistress,” said Me Anne Crézé, the victim’s lawyer. In front of the judges, the defendant strives to look good. Admittedly, he admits that he shouldn’t have hit his mistress, but he tries to justify himself: “I’m not a boy like that. Wanting to protect her too much, that is where we have come to. I got too invested in this relationship and didn’t want her to meet badly. “
A statement that leaves the prosecutor perplexed, especially since, according to testimonies, the man left little space of freedom to his mistress, cutting her off from her friends and apparently forbidding her all contact with other men. “A situation of mental, physical and emotional control”, according to the magistrate, who ensures that the accused “has a disturbing personality and profile”.
“I don’t know why I did this. “
An analysis that could be corroborated by the recordings of the video surveillance camera of the victim’s home, the day after the acts of violence. The lover entered her home and walked around the house before discreetly slipping away: “I don’t know why I did that. “
In defense, Me Sandra Renda tries to get her client out of the bad situation in which he has put himself, by relativizing: “It’s a blast. He couldn’t stand his mistress’ decision to leave him. “
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The lawyer acknowledges that the man may not have always been sincere, neither with his wife, nor with his mistress. “But he is someone hard-working and inserted,” she assures.
His arguments were not enough for the judges, who sentenced the lover to eighteen months in prison, ten months of which was closed, with detention.
Jacques Joannopoulos
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