“What a night!” It is in these slightly ironic terms that Judge Blandine Arrial summarized the facts which occupied the criminal court on Wednesday November 6. They date back to March 26, in Saint-Affrique.
Firefighters and then police were called by a thirty-year-old man shortly before midnight. An argument reportedly broke out with his partner. She allegedly hit him several times and threatened to “cut your throat with a knife”…
When the police arrive, the apartment is in poor condition and the faces of the two protagonists are marked. By separating them, the police restore calm. But not for long. While they tell the young woman that she must be transported to the hospital, she becomes angry.
Drunk, she copiously insults the soldiers. Five of them will work together to control her and take her by force to the emergency room. They will then receive several kicks in the stomach. After a sobering night, she will admit everything, without really apologizing. “The police are all idiots…”she does not hesitate to say.
On Wednesday, in court, she was not present to answer for these facts. She moved to Brittany and would be subject to various health problems… Only her ex-partner was there. He also had to answer for domestic violence: according to his former partner, he hit her several times that evening.
“I was very afraid for my life”
The man, convicted in 2022 for drug trafficking in his hometown, Saint-Affrique, denied everything. “I simply pushed him away, I was very afraid for my life, I didn't know what to do: I took between 30 and 40 blows to the head with a bottle that evening!” he said, before being taken up by the court.
“Don’t add any more, sir.”President Blandine Arrial told him, before releasing him for the benefit of self-defense… His ex-partner will have to serve a nine-month prison sentence. They can be moved in the form of electronic surveillance, or under bracelet. And the two former spouses are above all banned from contact for a period of five years. The gendarmes, victims of violence, benefited from damages of €500.
