This Thursday, February 18, in the morning, Azra (all first names have been changed) panicked into the bakery in her neighborhood, in Compiègne (Oise).
Hit the day before by her husband, she just left the office of her doctor, who noticed her injuries.
In front of the shopkeeper, she then brandishes the medical certificate and curls up under the counter, crying.
“Police, police!
She yells.
This Thursday, the court of Compiègne sentenced her spouse, Yusuf, to six months suspended prison sentence.
Anyone who now lives in Val-d'Oise will have to undergo psychological care for two years.
"I never said all that"
But did the young woman expect this umpteenth episode of domestic violence to end in front of the judges?
In a few weeks, his version of the facts will in any case change significantly.
At the police station, she will declare that she has never loved her husband, that the latter forces her to have sex without consent.
He accuses her of adultery, hits her and insults her regularly, especially in front of her two children.
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In the courtroom, while the couple are three meters apart, Azra does an about-face.
She recognizes some violence, which occurred on February 17, but denies the rest of her statements.
“The translator was wrong.
I never said all that, she says now.
I want to keep my distance from my husband from now on, but I don't want to be unfair to him.
"
"My dad hits my mom, then he yells at her"
Yusuf, meanwhile, invokes a single episode of violence: “I was in shock.
I had seen a message from a man on his cell phone.
We argue a lot, but I wanted to calm her down, not hurt her.
The bruises on her neck, arm and knee?
"My wife is diabetic, she marks quickly", evacuates the spouse.
The children, heard by the investigators, for their part described a context of regular violence, both physical and verbal.
The six-year-old boy, who witnessed the last scene, said: “My dad hits my mom, then he yells at her.
Wednesday, he typed it.
He did it like that, ”he describes, grabbing a teddy bear and squeezing its neck.
The 10-year-old big sister continues: “Almost every day dad screams at mommy.
He hit my brother and my mother.
Afterwards, he says sorry… ”Despite their testimony and the judge's outstretched hand, Azra will no longer change version.