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A 30-year-old man was on trial yesterday for immediate appearance for acts of violence against a woman with whom he was in a civil partnership. He was sentenced to 3 years in prison, 6 of which were suspended.
TP, born in 1994 in Moissac, is one of those “clients” who we rarely see before the criminal court. Tried for acts of violence (punches and kicks) without ITT for the victim in Castelsarrasin in 2022 then for the same acts but more serious (7 days of ITT) committed in Laffitte in 2023, he demonstrated a rare arrogance which greatly aggravated his case.
The man, on the run, was sought by the police for almost a year before it was discovered that he had already been imprisoned in Béziers since February 2024 for driving without a license or insurance as a repeat offender, concealment of theft and refusal to to comply, facts which earned him a sentence of one year in prison.
In a relationship with a woman for two years and linked by a civil pact, even if they did not live together, the relationship proved to be tumultuous, between breakups and reconciliations.
Yesterday, half-heartedly, he admitted the facts of November 11, 2022, in this case assault and battery which did not result in ITT days for the victim who did not file a complaint.
“Yes I’m jealous, when it’s mine, it’s mine”
The events of March 30 are more serious. Returning from an evening in Lafitte, TP stops along the way, pulls his concubine by the hair, kicks and punches her before abandoning her naked in the open countryside, not without running over her leg. He will return some time later to give her clothes and take her back to her home in Castelsarrasin. This time, the victim, who has 7 days of ITT, files a complaint, before withdrawing it. A search of the defendant’s grandmother allowed investigators to seize five hunting rifles, 400 cartridges and narcotics.
“Why did you flee the evening of the incident and not respond to the police summons?” the president asks him. “They arrived like cowboys, breaking down my grandmother’s door otherwise I don’t remember it, I wanted to change my life and leave Tarn-et-Garonne…”
“So there was never any violence between you, the victim is lying?” “No, it’s not lies, but it’s not me. If she has other problems with other people, that’s her problem. I’m not going to admit to things I didn’t do. “
When we talk about heightened jealousy, he concedes. “Yes I’m jealous, when it’s mine, it’s mine.”
“So this woman is an object for you?” asks the president, increasingly taken aback. “No, she is like all the others, women, there are them everywhere…”, replies the defendant, sure of his fact.
When the president points out the seriousness of rolling on one leg, he has the answer for everything. “If I had driven a 1.5 tonne car on one leg, the leg would have been broken…”
Weary of war, the president portrays the personality of this thirty-year-old who started a CAP in masonry abandoned on the way and who never really worked. According to the psychiatric expert, TP has “little affect, little consideration for others and no feeling of guilt. He presents a dangerous state at the criminological level with a feeling of omnipotence.”
“Where did I see this guy?”, the defendant loses his temper. “I’m hot-blooded yes, but I’m not crazy. It should be filmed because behind it, they can say whatever they want…”
In her indictment, the prosecutor, Lisa Bergereau, speaks of “abominable facts, absurd explanations and a particularly unpleasant personality.” It requires 3 years in prison including 6 months of probation.
The defense lawyer may mention “a road accident which caused the defendant to be in a coma for 15 days in his youth, and a criminal record containing only road traffic offences”, that will not change anything. The court took up the quantum of the public prosecutor’s office to the letter.
