A 39-year-old man, arrested in early September after harassing and threatening to kill his ex-partner for more than a year in Tourcoing (North), was sentenced to five years' imprisonment, extended with three years of socio-judicial monitoring , said the Lille prosecutor's office on Friday, October 9.
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Without a fixed address, HO was arrested in Roubaix on the night of September 1 to 2 after six months of investigation, and placed in pre-trial detention, recalled the prosecution.
He was finally tried on Monday and kept in detention, he said, confirming information from
La Voix du Nord
.
About fifteen complaints filed
Claire, 35 and a saleswoman in Tourcoing, testified at the end of August to AFP, explaining that she had filed about fifteen complaints against her ex since their separation in spring 2019. Initially, they were aimed at a surge of malicious calls and messages, threats of death, damage to property, especially vehicles.
At the end of the summer, he had gone so far as to spill gasoline on the door of his house twice, setting it on fire once.
Exasperated, Claire had posted the photo of her attacker in two Facebook posts.
She says she has since received testimonies from several other former companions of this man, also victims.
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The man was known to justice.
"
(He) had been wanted since March 2020 (...) A search warrant had been issued against him by the Lille prosecutor's office, as well as numerous requisitions to allow his location,
" the prosecutor had indicated at the beginning of September to the AFP, specifying that the victim was "
the subject of personalized support
".
