“I would like to see my daughter again before my eyes close, stammers the accused, just before the Assize Court of Val-de-Marne retires to deliberate this Thursday night.
Dad tried to redeem himself.
"
Three hours later, around 11:30 p.m., the verdict was received.
The 72-year-old accused was sentenced to seven years in prison for attempting to kill his partner, on the 11th floor of a building on rue Gabriel-Péri, in the Kremlin-Bicêtre, on May 21, 2017. sentence which follows to the letter the requisitions of the general counsel while the father of Lola
(the first name has been changed)
, 8 years old at the time of the facts, was liable to life imprisonment.
"A climate of psychological violence"
“This file is not the emblem of a hold by a violent man towards his wife,” recalled the representative of the public prosecutor during the requisitions.
The lawyer Velia Volland who represented the association Tremplins 94 SOS femmes evoked, on the contrary, "an emblematic case".
"We are indeed facing an attempt at feminicide," proclaims the lawyer who evokes: a climate of psychological violence.
"
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For three days, the court looked at the life of this atypical couple, between a woman of 39 years and a man thirty years his senior, at the time of the facts, who lived in a small two-room apartment of 27 square meters with their child.
The accused did not dispute the facts.
He admitted to having stabbed his former partner four times in the apartment while Lola was in the next room.
Panicked, the little girl had taken refuge with a neighbor, yelling: "I don't want dad to go to jail."
A psychiatrist talks about the life drive
A few seconds later, the victim had presented, bare legs with a T-shirt stained with blood, to a neighbor.
She got away with 15 days of total incapacity for work (ITT).
His companion was arrested a few minutes later, without offering any resistance.
On the one hand, the father explained the daily humiliations he suffered, the bullying.
"The psychiatrist spoke of a life drive," hammered Me Anne-Hélène Ricaud, the lawyer for the accused during his plea.
He tried to gain the upper hand after years of humiliation, of denial of himself.
"
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She then returned to the discussions between the victim and her sister at length, which showed a more calculating personality.
"There is a distortion between the facts and the reality", estimates Me Anne-Hélène Ricaud who returns to the handrails made with the police officers after threats, sometimes insignificant.
In one of them, the victim says: “He told me that I am unlocking!
"
When opposite, the victim who testified by videoconference, believes that the accused "did everything to control her", the accused's lawyer recalls that she "left five days a week for business trips in England and in France.
Is that controlling his life?
"
For its part, the civil party also referred to the "daily humiliations" and "death threats" that the victim suffered as she had told a neighbor.
"It is a representative file of reciprocal verbal violence," recalled the general counsel.
They did not know how to find a space for dialogue.
"
Since then, the victim has rebuilt her life with her daughter in Canada.
The court, which took into account the fact that the accused suffers from liver cancer, did not remove his parental authority.
But since May 21, 2017, he has not seen Lola again.
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