Threats and insults, humiliations, scenes of jealousy, isolation ... The Grenelle of domestic violence has made it possible to recognize that it is not only physical violence that kills.
In the wake of this mobilization, forced suicide was recognized as an aggravating circumstance of moral harassment within the couple.
This new article of the penal code increases the harassment of a spouse leading to suicide or attempted suicide to ten years' imprisonment and a fine of 150,000 euros.
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A first in Europe.
But the legal victories remain to come so that this advance, considered "historic", does not remain a dead letter.
It was not until a year after the adoption of the law to better
"protect victims of domestic violence"
that a first complaint for forced suicide was filed.
It comes from the brothers and sisters of Odile, a 50-year-old woman found dead on New Year's Day on Miter beach in Toulon, a box of pills by her side.
The latter accuse
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