Initially placed under judicial supervision on July 24, 2024, this 39-year-old resident of Questembert appeared this Wednesday before the Vannes court to answer for violence against his partner and two of his three minor children, but also of contempt and rebellion against the gendarmes during his arrest. Because he took the path to prison on November 29, by not respecting this judicial control, when he sent his wife hundreds of messages, even though he was prohibited from contacting her while awaiting his trial. .
Gendarmes threatened, insulted and assaulted
On July 22, 2024, the police were called by the woman who claimed to be the victim of two slaps in the face given by her partner, at the family home, while the couple was in the process of separating. On this occasion, other previous attacks had been denounced, committed against the wife but also against their two daughters. One, then aged 6, had received a violent spanking with a piece of wood in July 2024, the other, 7 years old, had been the victim of a cutter blow in 2022.
Faced with the gendarmes, the defendant refused to submit to an alcohol test and threatened them with death, while insulting them and rebelling.
€600 in alcohol and cannabis
With his head bowed in court, the defendant explains: “I didn’t want to get to this point. But the situation got out of hand due to alcohol. Because I have been an alcoholic for six years, with consequences on my family environment. So my wife wanted me to leave the marital home permanently. I refused on July 22 and then hit her twice.”
His lawyer specifies: “He sent messages to his wife when he received the summons for their divorce. But his incarceration and this hearing are today electric shocks for him to return to who he was before his addictions. And that also requires care.”
The wife testifies in tears: “I know that he is ill because of his consumption of alcohol and cannabis, which represented up to €600 per month. I lasted four years like this. But I couldn’t take it anymore because no one wanted to hear my cries for help and I had to manage everything.”
For the prosecutor, “this husband and father is the prototype of the drug addict and alcoholic who destroyed his family. Today he cries over himself, without hardly expressing regret.”
The culprit was sentenced to eighteen months in prison with a probationary suspension of thirty months, with an obligation to provide care, with a ban on contact with the victims and on frequenting drinking establishments. The exercise of parental authority is withdrawn from her for her three children.
