“She made me understand that with my criminal past, she would have custody of our son…”

“All the lights are coming on about the potential for action,” worries the representative of the public prosecutor, in front of the Agen correctional chamber, this Friday, November 22. A few meters from the prosecutor, the 39-year-old defendant brushes aside this prospect. If he admits to having “threw a punch in the face” of his partner on September 16, 2023, the date of their separation after five years of relationship, the thirty-year-old explains that he acted to repel her violence, translated by a bite at the side. The young woman's late complaint is supported by numerous threatening messages that have occurred in the meantime. “Deprive me of my son and I will take care of you”, reads the president, in order to provoke a reaction from its author.

“I know I was wrong. She has always been provocative. I took my daughter's life a few years ago. She warned me that with the criminal record that I had, she would have no problem having custody of our son,” explains the defendant, sentenced at the age of 23 to fifteen years of criminal imprisonment. by the Lot-et-Garonne Assize Court, for violence leading to the death of her 8-month-old baby.

“Detestable”

“That’s not true,” objects the prosecutor. She writes you the opposite, that she has no intention of depriving you of your son. You are the one reporting your background. It is detestable to suggest that having already committed a serious act, this would make taking action easier…”

In defense, M^e Sarah Labadie acknowledges the facts. Before returning to the life and traumatic first years of his client. “Today's perpetrator is yesterday's victim,” notes the lawyer, bringing to the attention of the court the numerous sexual abuses inflicted by his entire family, before he dares to denounce the facts. Behind her, the mayor and the defendant's employer, who came to support.

The thirty-year-old avoided the incarceration required by the prosecution. He was sentenced to one year's imprisonment in the form of house arrest under an electronic bracelet, with no contact with the victim.