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A 47 -year -old man was sentenced to 18 months in prison for domestic violence on his partner. The latter accuses him of having strangled him during an argument caused by the sudden arrest of his phone. The respondent firmly denies these accusations.
“I have never been a bastard with her.” Before the judge, Steve Vilain, 47, denies any accusation of violence against his partner. However, the latter assures that he pulled her hair, slapped and strangled her at their home in Noyon (Oise) on the evening of April 3.
The cause? Not so simple. While the forties plays, as usual, on his smartphone, the device goes out for lack of battery. It takes no more for an argument to break out between the two spouses. Steve would have been, treating his partner “from Connasse, before putting a slap and catching him at the level of the neck,” says Oise Hebdo.
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Recurrence violence
Violence that the defendant denies. He explains that it was she who slapped him, refutes having pulled her hair but rather having “broken his pliers”. As for the accusation of strangulation, he simply has no memory of it. “I discovered the next day that she wore a Minerva,” he pleads. Could Steve amnesia have been caused by excessive alcohol consumption?
During the intervention of the gendarmes on April 3 and then on April 7, the two cohabits were alcoholic. A harmful penchant that they also maintain together “in the morning”, recalls the prosecutor, who took the opportunity to remind the accused that the victim “presented traces of strangulation, four days after the facts”.
This is not the first time that Steve has appeared for violence on his girlfriend. His locker has had 16 mentions since 2001, including two convictions for acts of domestic violence.
The man received eighteen months in prison, including twelve months suspended probationary, with care, work and contact ban.
