Soft voice, black outfit and heeled ankle boots. The fifty-year-old who had to answer for aggravated violence, death threats and damage to the property of others at the bar of the Bergerac court, this Monday, January 6, did not have the profile of the defendants that we usually meet in the courtrooms. hearing. “I completely twisted,” she tries to explain to the magistrates.
This November 9, 2024, when the gendarmes arrive in the early morning at his ex-partner's apartment in Pays-de-Belvès, they discover an apocalyptic scene. “Blood everywhere”, on the floor, walls or doors, a ravaged home and a man with multiple injuries. “I’m getting beaten up by my wife,” he whispered to them during his call.
Separated in theory since August 2024, the couple that everyone agrees to describe as “toxic”, reunited on the evening of November 8. “We had a lot of trouble doing without each other,” explains the defendant. That day, I asked him if we could meet but he had a dinner planned which ended up being canceled. » The 51-year-old woman therefore begins the evening with a friend. The duo enjoyed two bottles of wine before heading to Pays-de-Belvès. “The three of us drank again, we danced, and at one point, I surprised them in the middle of a sexual act. »
Serious injuries
“Destroyed” and “hyper-jealous”, the ex-partner leaves home but decides to come back a few minutes later. A statue, shards of bottles, an ashtray, a dumbbell or even a candlestick and a gardening claw, the fifty-year-old “takes everything that comes to hand” to strike. The man escaped with 14 days of total work interruption (ITT), head trauma and pneumothorax, the gardening claw having violently perforated his lung.
Acts of “extreme violence” which continue against the friend, also affected by the garden claw. The decoration of the apartment is also included. “I have flashes and fog, I see myself taking the microwave and throwing it away,” says this mother of three who has never been talked about. I don't recognize myself. »
But for the victim's lawyer, who became a civil party, the gesture was “not an impulse”. “She goes home, falls asleep and the next day plans to go to Toulouse,” she is surprised, explaining that her client “did not have the courage to be present at the hearing.” Still followed by a pulmonologist, he also suffers from paresthesia (numbness) in his left arm.
Home detention
Faced with this “dance floor transformed into carnage”, the prosecutor, Gaël Bellet, requested two years of reinforced probationary suspension with in particular an obligation of care. As for the defense, she highlighted “the descent into hell” of her client, dismissed for gross misconduct and falling into severe depression. “She is not violent by nature,” said the lawyer.
The magistrates, however, went beyond the requisitions by sentencing the defendant to two years in prison, including 16 months with reinforced probationary suspension. This sentence is accompanied by an obligation of care, a ban on contact with the victims and the obligation to compensate them. The defendant, who must be hospitalized in addiction and psychiatry on Friday January 10, will then have to serve her sentence under an electronic bracelet.
