convicted of setting fire to his pregnant ex's stroller

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A man was sentenced Thursday October 17, 2024 by tribunal correctional Nantes (Loire-Atlantique) for “destruction of the property of others” after having set the stroller on fire of are ex-matesin his garage Héricwhile this one was “eight and a half months pregnant”. But why did he commit such an act?

Loire-Atlantique: a couple well known to the justice system

For these acts he received eight months' imprisonment. Déjà sentenced 21 timesthis 43-year-old man will now have to convince a sentence enforcement judge (JAP) that he can serve this sentence in an alternative form to detention. It was also made to him ban on contacting the victim again and to appear at his home for three years. It will finally be prohibited from carrying weapons during the same period.

The court, however, did not not revoked prison sentences previous suspended sentences which hovered over the defendant's head and did not take away his parental authority on her children aged 3 and 8. He was also released for “usual violence” of which the complainant nevertheless claimed to have been a victim between 2015 and 2021, when the couple lived together in Guémené-Penfao and Héric. He faced a maximum of “10 years of imprisonment” for these acts.

Violence within the couple

The magistrate summarized this procedure by saying that the couple he formed with the complainant had “a mode of operation” based on the “reciprocal psychological violence”. The 32-year-old young woman certified, for example, that she had been the victim of physical violence during a visit to prison within the Family Life Unit (UVF).

There was “never any violence in detention” because “otherwise, the visit permits would have been suspended”, the man confirmed during his trial. It was also he who “decided to leave” and put an end to this “toxic relationship”.

If he “came back” later, it was because it was “complicated” and he “given in to threats” from his ex-partner. It was ultimately the complaint filed on September 18, 2023 by the latter which put a “permanent” end to their relationship.

A marriage proposal despite the violence

That day, the complainant assured the gendarmes that she had been “slapped” the day before, “grabbed by the throat” and “pressed against the wall” after having “refused” to let her companion take a photo of their son. She also had received “a punch in the jaw.” She also told the police that her ex-companion insulted him regularly.

But the defendant has a completely different version of the facts: the complainant actually made a “hysterical attack” after his ex-partner “came to pick up” his 16-year-old daughter from their home.

The president of the court also noted that the complainant had organized “a small party” at the release from prison of her companion, during which she had him “proposed to marry” despite the supposed “violence” that occurred at the UVF… but that he had “refused” and had instead “tried to buy narcotics upon his release from detention.

She had therefore “had it very bad”, because “she had been waiting for this for four years”. He “still stayed” at the marital home but things had “clashed very often” between them. “I was his punching bag, his whipping boy”she summarized to the police.

He sets fire to his pregnant partner's stroller

It is in the same context that the attacks occurred on May 28, 2021. “damage” to the strollerafter the complainant ” pregnant of eight and a half months” invited his companion to “shut the fuck up”. He would then have “burned the belly” and he would have given “slaps in the face.” “So angry”, he had “set fire” to the baby’s stroller unborn child that she “had just bought”.

“I put a cigarette in the stroller, but there was no flamesit did not catch fire,” the defendant put things into perspective in court. The president of the criminal court responded to him. “It kills, fire. There was still a woman pregnant with your works in the house. »

She “spent Caf money on drugs”

For the rest, the defendant did not recognize anything else: the scratches of his ex-partner could come from their « chats » and his ex-partner “already wanted to throw himself down the stairs” to have injuries.

THE testimonials from neighbors of the young woman had not leaned in his favor: she “screamed alone” in the house when he was absent and they “screamed together” when he was present. Since then, the man has gone back to live with his father in Blain.

The latter has also certified to gendarmes from Nort-sur-Erdre that his son was “never” violent “with women” and that he “wondered” moreover “what he was doing with this slightly crazy girl ». Elle “spent Caf money on drugs”his son added. Her ex-daughter-in-law had also admitted to having “done a lot of police custody » with her ex-partner when it was “crazy love” between them.

Released for the violence, convicted for the damage

This mother of four children was absent from the hearing because she “was absolutely not capable” of confronting her ex-partner, of whom she has always ” fear “according to his lawyer Me Delphine Branquet. She also had “a particularly difficult and chaotic life journey” in a family where violence was “legion”.

So she asked €6,000 in damages personally, €1,000 for each of their two children and finally an additional €1,000 for his lawyer's fees.

Me Hugo Tran, the defendant's lawyer, “did not believe in the theory of the perfect victim of a narcissistic and manipulative pervert »because the plaintiff is “absolutely not stable and reliable” and her client is not “the bad werewolf in the story”.

The Nantes criminal court finally heard it in relaxing the man for “violence” of which he was accused, but condemned for his “degradations” of the stroller.

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