his wife refuses to put her laundry in the wash, he hits her and knocks her teeth out

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“I was forced to hit her. » Amr, a 28-year-old Egyptian, repeated this several times before the Versailles court, Wednesday October 30, 2024, to justify the blows against the mother of her son 4 months old, a few days earlier, in Follainville-Dennemont (Yvelines). He was sentenced to 6 months in prison without warrant of committal.

Around midnight, on the night of October 26 to 27, the gendarmes were called to the nearby town of Mantes-la-Jolie. It was the victim's father who raised the alarm. He says that his daughter has just been hit by his companion.

A damaged tooth, a swollen face

When they arrived at the victim's mother's house, where the latter had taken refuge, the soldiers noted several lesions on the face and one arm of the unfortunate woman. One of his teeth has also moved significantly. Arrested the next day, Amr claimed to have only givenonly one slap to his companion.

The facts as the victim described them to the police attest to another scenario, more consistent with his injuries. She was on the bed checking her phone when Amr received a call which would have more than irritated him.

He then ordered his wife to put her laundry in the wash. She objected, he got angry, strangling her, insulting her and hitting her punches.

Big injuries for a “simple slap”

During the hearing, continuing his statements to investigators, the defendant contested the intensity of the violence. “ I never get angry and I never insulted him. »

He admits to having given him a “simple slap”, the nature of which we dare not imagine. power to push in a tooth. A slap that he considers justified.

“I hit her because she insulted my mother, bit me and didn't put the laundry in the machine. »

A stunned president

When the president asks him if he considers that these are good reasons to hit someone, Amr acquiesces, leaving the magistrate stunned. “ Nothing justifies hitting someoneeven when we are insulted. It doesn't change anything that you're upset. »

As for the bite on the defendant's hand, the victim denies having anything to do with it. However, M^e Berland, the defense lawyer, will mention it in his pleading, inducing a “framework of reciprocal violence”.

He also contests the characterization of “beating” made by the civil party’s lawyer. Finally, the tooth, according to the defendant, would have fragilitywhich even the victim would never notice…

He maintains that he did not hit him

The other injuries? Amr does not hesitate to affirm that his wife would have inflicted them on herself. “In front of me, she hit herself in the face,” he swore, miminghaphazard way the gestures of someone punching themselves in the face.

Notified of aobligation to leave French territory (OQTF) as part of these proceedings, Amr appeared at the hearing wearing a gray sweater with a rooster embroidered in the colors of the French flag. That won't be enough to make him relax.

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