This reveals, in 2022, the recurring violence in the young couple appearing close from the outside: “He saw red, he hit me for ten minutes, I got on the ground and I just cried. My brain was going into off mode, I felt like I was dead inside. […] He totally reprogrammed me for two years. After hitting me, he managed to convince me that it was normal for a boyfriend to do that to his girlfriend.”
“It didn’t happen like that at all,” struggles Mehdi Mehdari, 21 years old. “Basically, if we had a disagreement, it was because she was jealous and didn’t want me to go out. » He admits to “slaps”, in response to the blows he received. “I’m quite small, I didn’t have the upper hand, she hits very hard… more than me. »
Five witnesses called by the defense
He is insolent, asks questions of the judges, giggles during a victim’s statement, describes each mention of his record as “stupidity” or a judicial error (for which, however, he never appealed)… He lies about a story about a garden shed, in which he locks her up to terrorize her by burning locks of her hair.
“There is no garden behind the Faidherbe stadium [à Nevers]these are SNCF warehouses,” he assures, with a broad, satisfied smile. Yes, there are indeed cultivated plots, between the football field and the railway tracks, but the court does not find this out.
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