Yvelines: sentenced to one year in prison for having beaten up his pregnant partner

"She got angry and fell all by herself!"

Until the end, Y. seeks all possible excuses to avoid the sentence, despite the evidence against him.

This Thursday, however, he has just been sentenced for violence against cohabiting partner by the judicial court of Versailles (Yvelines) to one year in prison, including six months closed with two years of suspension with prohibition to approach his companion.

The latter, found injured this Wednesday in the Valibout district in Plaisir, burst into tears at the time of the verdict.

Nearly five months pregnant, she casts a bewildered look at the judge.

"It was the first time that he was violent, it's a misunderstanding," she said a little earlier, questioned when she refused to file a civil suit.

Strongly alcoholic and edgy

However, the young woman confirmed the charges against her husband. The scene took place this Wednesday, in broad daylight, in the Allée Saint-Juste in Plaisir. The victim was drinking alcohol with two friends on a bench when Y. joined her. An argument broke out against a background of jealousy. He drags her from the place where she is to the hall of the building where they live a little further away. Then he brushes her up and kicks her several times in the face and back. The victim, who refuses to be seen by a doctor, has a bleeding ear, bruises on the face, upper back and arm. After briefly leaving the premises, Y returns on a scooter a little later. He was greeted by the police, who explained in his report that he was heavily intoxicated, nervous and had to be handcuffed.

"How do you explain the wounds of madam?"

», Asks the judge to the detainee.

"She had fallen in the subway a little earlier and there she fell again", calmly blurted out Y. He even goes so far as to declare that the witnesses lied, just like the police since he was not alcoholic. moment of the facts, according to him.

During their statements, witnesses reported that the 26-year-old man said "she's my wife, I do what I want" as he beat her.

"He has an attitude of total denial"

As the defense lawyer rightly recalled, there is no complaint in this file, nor is there any medical report or confession. The detainee also has a clean criminal record. Not enough to discourage the public prosecutor whose conviction has remained intact despite the detainee's denials. "No, sir does not do what he wants with his wife," she said in the introduction. For him everyone is a liar, he has an attitude of total denial. What should challenge us is that he is uninhibited to act on the public highway, even when people try to intervene. You have a zero degree of questioning, he has the impression that it is he who is in the omnipotence. »And to underline the importance of intervening in the event of domestic violence, whatever the attitude of the victim:"This file was able to start thanks to the people present who denounced the facts, thanks to the police who intervened immediately".

Hard-hitting remarks that finally convinced the judge.

It remains to be seen whether, upon his release in a few months, Y will respect the ban on contacting his spouse and coming to the family home.

The victim, who will have given birth to her child by then, seemed in any case devastated by the news.

It was in tears that she left the courtroom as her husband left for prison, without batting an eyelid.

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