Victims of violence from her ex-spouse, a mother had to file a complaint on several occasions. This is only the eighth time that she has been heard and that justice has answered her.
Thursday, May 27, a 41-year-old man was sentenced in Nantes for acts of domestic violence against his ex-wife. He received a 10-month probationary suspended sentence, will have to follow care and an awareness training course on domestic violence. He was also ordered to pay 3,400 euros in damages to his victim and not to show up at his home, reports West France. A story that could have shown how justice defended the victims, if it had not been necessary for the woman to file a complaint eight times before being heard.
For years, this woman denounced the domestic violence of which she was a victim and lodged a complaint eight times. The first seven times, nothing happened. This is only the eighth time the complaint has been followed up and the man has been called to court, the local newspaper said. During the hearing, the one who has already been convicted once for malicious calls, admitted having pushed and hit and spit on his ex-wife. He also admitted to harassing her by calling her no less than 74 times in one night. He was also accused of threatening her with a handgun on November 23, 2020, when she came to pick up their two children at his home.
This case only highlights the lack of support for victims of domestic violence and the scandalous and too frequent absence of a judicial response in the event of a complaint, which means that many of them do not dare to talk about what is happening. ‘they suffer. A fact that the court recognized, the president having declared thate “the procedure was not treated as it should”. “There are cases of which we are not very proud, our reactivity was clearly taken in default”, added the prosecutor. And that’s the least we can say!