Their romance only lasted two years. Two years punctuated by ever more frequent, ever harder blows. The 28-year-old man appeared before the Thionville court on Tuesday, just a few meters from the one to whom he had promised to make his life hell. On June 29, 2020, when the couple has just separated, a new argument breaks out. Monsieur is annoyed, he has drunk according to his ex-partner, and attacks her. “I grabbed her by the sweater and she fell to the ground,” said the defendant. “He grabbed me by the sweater, threw me on the ground several times, slammed my head against the ground and beat me up”, corrects the victim whose version is corroborated by the examination medical which reports numerous bruises all over the body. He denies having hit him. Like always. But on November 14, the man who cannot turn the page walks past his ex-girlfriend’s apartment and sees a man at the window. His blood only turns. Mad with anger and jealousy, he shows up at the door of the building.
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He screams that he’s going to kill her
The young woman, whose intercom does not work, goes down, sees no one, turns around to leave when her ex appears and grabs her by the throat. She screams, manages to free herself, climbs the stairs, he runs behind her, yells at her that he is going to kill her. She tries to close the door, he kicks it and enters in his turn. “I just wanted to talk to her, to find out why she had filed a complaint against me. But she turned her back on me, she wasn’t listening to me. I was pissed off, I couldn’t control myself so I hit the wall, ”admits the defendant who still denies the beatings. Already sentenced seven times for acts of violence or in connection with excessive alcohol consumption, this time, he does not escape prison. He was sentenced to eighteen months, nine of which were accompanied by a probationary suspension of two years and a ban on contacting the victim.
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