A man was sentenced at the Nîmes criminal court to 6 years in prison and continued detention After serious violence against his partner.
He admits to the bites, but denies the blows. This man could not stand his neighbor and above all he imagined his partner’s infidelities. The latter, 9 months pregnant, was violently beaten.
On January 22, Nîmes police intervened for domestic violence at the home of a couple and in the presence of two children aged 10 and 12. Frightened little girls who fled to hide in the thickets near the family home, even though they had previously begged the man to stop these actions. But the beatings continued, the 9-month pregnant mother even lost consciousness three times.
” It lasted almost two hours, it was long and it never stopped“, feverishly admits the mother who clings to the bar of the Nîmes criminal court to recount her ordeal. A woman, bitten, hit, insulted, strangled. A forensic doctor will take a 6-day ITT. “LThe violence caused the birth“, certifies the lady who will give birth that day, a few hours after being taken to hospital for violence, a little boy.
A man who still denies the beatings, even if he recognizes the bites. Arrested by the police on the evening of the events, he indicated to the police and towards his partner: “I like this whore”, “I admit to biting her three times“! He even adds to the audience that his reaction is as follows: ” After two slaps received from him, she screamed, she was hysterical. I couldn’t stop it“, insists the defendant who has been incarcerated since the events.
A man who is repeating violence. ” It’s a scene that lasts two hours. And, nothing over two hours manages to bring the gentleman back to his sensesestimates prosecutor Estelle Meyer. The tears and the supplications of the children, the suffering of this woman do not stop her actions. It’s a wild beast, a beast… You saw the bites on the face, the arms, the hand.”blames the prosecutor who asks for 7 years in prison.
A man who even confided during the time in police custody that if his partner had not been pregnant, he would have taken out the whip to do like children, “traces with a red ass” !
” You have to say the words, and the lady has suffered an attempted murder, he escapes the assizes”insists the lawyer for the civil party, referring to “d“violence which is cruel and without any limit”.
“He partly recognizes the facts and regrets them. He admits his full responsibility during this eveningpleads for the accused Master Maguelone Bonnaud. You are judging today a unique fact.”
“OWe now each go our separate ways, but I ask for great forgiveness“, says the father before going into detention for 6 years.
