The victim, mother of a six-year-old girl, had just left him. She was taken to hospital with a swollen face and an open sore on her skull.
While already three women have died under the blows of their spouse or ex-spouse since the beginning of the year 2022, a man was sentenced, Tuesday, January 4, to four years in prison, including one year suspended, for the violent assault on December 29 of his partner who had just left him.
It is the gendarmerie of Charente-Maritime which announced this Thursday on Twitter of this story unrolled in the form of a thread “Sad but revealing of our daily interventions and our action against domestic violence“And accompanied by the hashtag #Nerienl let pass.
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The facts took place in Rioux, between Cognac and Royan, four days after Christmas. It is then a little after 10 p.m. “After a drunken evening”, as specified by the gendarmerie on Twitter, a mother announces to her companion that she wishes to leave him. Unable to bear the news, the latter is seized with an excess of rage and is unleashed on his companion. “He then throws her on the bed. He hits her hard in the face. She manages to get out of the bedroom to reach the living room, trying to escape, but he catches her and hits her in the ribs with a blunt object.», Details the gendarmerie.
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The young woman finally manages to escape and takes refuge with a neighbor, in the company of her daughter “who unfortunately attended the whole scene“. She immediately contacted the gendarmes, who quickly arrived on site and arrested the violent husband.
Four years in prison
The victim, who has a swollen face and who suffers from an open wound to the skull, is taken to hospital. The accused is placed in police custody at the Cozes brigade, where he recognizes the facts. He was presented immediately to a magistrate from the Saintes public prosecutor’s office and was placed in pre-trial detention before being tried in immediate appearance on January 4. He was then sentenced to four years’ imprisonment, one of which was suspended with a warrant of committal.
When he left the hospital, the victim was taken care of by the Cell for the fight against personal attacks (CLAP) in Saintes. A doctor also grants him a temporary incapacity for work (ITT) of eight days. The girl was also heard by an investigator from the House of Confidence and Family Protection of the Departmental Gendarmerie Group of Charente-Maritime.
According to the feminist collective #WeAll, 200,000 women are said to be victims of violence each year in their marriage. And the collective to ensure that at least 113 women would have been killed by the spouse or ex-spouse in France during the year 2021.
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